{"id":2626,"date":"2022-05-16T09:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/olympic-champion-jacobs-to-light-up-100m-in-oslo\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:14:51","slug":"olympic-champion-jacobs-to-light-up-100m-in-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/olympic-champion-jacobs-to-light-up-100m-in-oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic champion Jacobs to light up 100m in Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion <strong>Lamont Marcell Jacobs<\/strong> will be looking to get valuable Diamond League points on the board when he lines up in the 100m at Oslo&#8217;s Bislett Games on June 16th.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs, 27, is hoping to claim a first ever Diamond Trophy this year after stunning the world with a gold-medal winning European record of 9.80 at the Tokyo Games last summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Italian remains in fine form, having charged to gold in the 60m at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade two months ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One major title which still eludes him is the Diamond Trophy, but Jacobs looks set to launch a serious title charge this year, having already signed up to run in Oslo and at his home meeting in Rome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In June, he will be the first 100m Olympic champion to compete at the Oslo Diamond League since Usain Bolt broke the meeting record there with 9.79 in 2012, famously crashing into a flower girl just after he crossed the finish line.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s 100m Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs will headline an impressive 100m...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[215,6,785,131,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-100m","tag-diamond-league","tag-jacobs","tag-oslo","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","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=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}