{"id":705,"date":"2015-06-16T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/monaco-strong-french-presence-at-herculis-on-july-17th\/"},"modified":"2015-06-16T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T13:37:00","slug":"monaco-strong-french-presence-at-herculis-on-july-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/monaco-strong-french-presence-at-herculis-on-july-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco: Strong French Presence at Herculis on July 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; \" lang=\"EN-US\">In exactly one month, the world of Athletics will come back to Louis II Stadium in Monaco for the meeting <b>HERCULIS<\/b>, part of the <b>IAAF DIAMOND LEAGUE<\/b> circuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; \" lang=\"EN-US\">After announcing Renaud LAVILLENIE\u2019s return to Monaco, organisers are pleased to confirm you the presence of some of the biggest French stars:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; \" lang=\"EN-US\">Pierre-Ambroise <b>BOSSE<\/b>, after a thundering start of the season, is returning where he established a new French Record in 1:42.53, impressing the spectators who were in the stadium that night. After his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place during the IAAF Diamond League Meeting of New-York this weekend, where he realised the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> best time of his career (the first two were set in\u2026Monaco !) the 800m race of Monaco will offer him once again the best conditions for another top performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; \" lang=\"EN-US\">Jimmy <b>VICAUT<\/b> is in the same situation, after taking the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place of the 100m race of HERCULIS Meeting 2 years ago in 9.99. He is coming back this year with even stronger arguments on his side, thanks to his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place of IAAF Diamond League meeting of Rome in 9.98 on June 4<sup>th<\/sup>. Will his personal best of 9.95 and the French Record of 9.92 still be accurate on the next day of the meeting?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; \" lang=\"EN-US\">And before the European Team Championships this weekend, organisers are proud to announce that the heroes from Zurich 2014 will be at Herculis 2015! Thus, European Triple Jump Champion Benjamin <b>COMPAORE<\/b> will be here, as well as medallists Cindy <b>BILLAUD<\/b> for the 100m Hurdles, Melina <b>ROBERT-MICHON<\/b> for the Discus Throw, Kevin <b>MENALDO<\/b> for the Pole Vault and Floria <b>GUEI<\/b>, heroine of the golden 4x400m relay thanks to her devastating finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; \" lang=\"EN-US\">A few days after the French National Day, these champions will be joining you at Louis II Stadium on <b>July 17<sup>th<\/sup> 2015<\/b> for what should be another amazing night of athletics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few weeks before the World Championships of Beijing, the french elite will make the trip in...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}