{"id":2492,"date":"2021-09-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/final-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:30:00","slug":"final-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/final-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Final: Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s best athletes are in Zurich this week to compete for the last global title of the summer season at the Wanda Diamond League Final.The&nbsp;two-day bonanza of world class athletics will see 32 athletes crowned 2021 Wanda Diamond League champion and get their hands on&nbsp;the Diamond Trophy and&nbsp;US$30,000 of prize money.<\/p>\n<p>There will be two press conferences ahead of the final: one on Tuesday featuring athletes who will compete at the city event on Zurich&#8217;s Sechsel\u00e4utenplatz on Wednesday evening, and one on Wednesday for those athletes who will line up in the Letzigrund Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow both press conferences via livestream and on-demand highlights clips using the blog below. Subject to changes, the schedule is as follows (all times GMT+2):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday (highlights below)<\/strong><br \/> 14:00 &#8211; Andreas Hediger and Christoph Joho (meeting directors)<br \/> 14:20 &#8211; Mariya Lasitskene,&nbsp;Ryan Crouser<br \/> 14:50 &#8211; Hellen Obiri, Francine Niyonsaba<br \/> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday (highlights below)<\/strong><br \/> 13:00 &#8211; Andreas Hediger, Christoph Joho (meeting directors)<br \/> 13:20 &#8211; Sifan Hassan, Faith Kipyegon, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Timothy Cheruiyot<br \/> 13:50 &#8211; Femke Bol, Lea Sprunger, Karsten Warholm<br \/> 14:20 &#8211; Elaine Thompson-Herah, Ajla Del Ponte, Mujinga Kambundji<br \/> 14:50 &#8211; Jason Joseph, Andre De Grasse<br \/> 15:10 &#8211; Yulimar Rojas, Gianmarco Tamberi, Mondo Duplantis<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lb24-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"960px\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"lb24\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe\/?id=2869869485167644773\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch and follow live as Ryan Crouser, Hellen Obiri and others face the media ahead of the Wanda...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[560,6,298,431,569,97,624,43],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-crouser","tag-diamond-league","tag-final","tag-lasitskene","tag-obiri","tag-press-conference","tag-wanda","tag-zurich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}