{"id":3074,"date":"2011-08-12T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2011\/08\/12\/world-premiere-for-brussels-a-reverse-400m\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T09:45:00","slug":"world-premiere-for-brussels-a-reverse-400m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2011\/08\/12\/world-premiere-for-brussels-a-reverse-400m\/","title":{"rendered":"World premiere for Brussels: a &#8216;reverse&#8217; 400m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\" lang=\"EN-GB\">In September the 2011 <strong>Belgacom Memorial Van Damme<\/strong> will certainly have a world first in staging a &quot;reverse&quot; 400.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">This idea was suggested by Professor <strong>Dirk Huylebrouck<\/strong>. Along with one of his students, the athlete <strong>Nils Duerinck<\/strong>, he is intrigued by the fact that track races are always run counterclockwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Could this also be reversed? And, if so, will the athletes run faster or slower. On 16 Sep some Belgian 400m runners will try out the event in the <strong>King Baudouin Stadium<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September the 2011 Belgacom Memorial Van Damme will certainly have a world first in staging a...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}