{"id":3292,"date":"2017-08-31T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2017\/08\/31\/thompson-two-good-reasons-to-be-happy-before-the-start\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:25:00","slug":"thompson-two-good-reasons-to-be-happy-before-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2017\/08\/31\/thompson-two-good-reasons-to-be-happy-before-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson: \u2019Two good reasons to be happy before the start&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Elaine Thompson performed very well in the qualifying meetings of the Diamond League, but finished a disappointing fifth at the London world championships on her favourite distance, the 100 metres. \u201cThat was a very big disappointment,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI watched the images a thousand times by now and I still don\u2019t know what went wrong. After the season I will analyse everything with my coach.\u201d&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The season ends after Friday night as the AG Memorial Van Damme will be the last race of the year for Thompson. \u201cBrussels is known for its fast track and I really want to succeed myself as the Diamond League champion,\u201d she added. &quot;That&#8217;s two good reasons to be happy before the start. The world championships were disappointing, but I\u2019m still only 25 and I want to prove in the coming years that I\u2019m still the best sprinter.&quot;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thompson doesn\u2019t have a specific time in mind for Friday. \u201cI never do that. 10.70? Can be, might not. I like being surprised when I look at the times. I just try to run the best race possible.&quot;<\/div>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7i8S5psT5HE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a delayed flight and a late arrival in Brussels on Thursday night, Elaine Thompson was...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","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=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}