{"id":3294,"date":"2017-08-31T08:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2017\/08\/31\/van-branteghem-fascinating-duels-after-the-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:26:50","slug":"van-branteghem-fascinating-duels-after-the-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2017\/08\/31\/van-branteghem-fascinating-duels-after-the-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Branteghem: &#8216;Fascinating duels after the world championships&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At last year\u2019s event Van Branteghem was still the assistant meeting director, but this year he\u2019s taken over at the helm from Wilfried Meert. \u201cAs meeting organiser you\u2019re always hoping for fast times, but as a former athlete I know athletes primarily care about that victory,\u201d says the former 400 metre runner.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&quot;But don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll see a lot of great races. I\u2019m especially looking forward to several duels after the world championships. I\u2019m thinking about Nijel Amos, who dominated the 800 metres at the Diamond League qualifying meetings, but couldn\u2019t make it happen at the world championships in London. Elaine Thompson is also eager to shine on the 100 metres after her disappointing world championships.&quot;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Van Branteghem is also looking forward to the performances of several Belgian stars. \u201cThe discus will be very interesting with Philip Milanov wanting to put the world championships behind him, where he didn\u2019t manage to qualify for the finals,\u201d Van Branteghem adds. &quot;Who knows he can do that by winning the Diamond League in front of his home crowd.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe high jump will also be something to look forward to. Can Maria Lasitskene beat her season\u2019s best of 2m06? Wildcard Nafi Thiam will be a great attraction for both the Belgian and international public.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Van Branteghem points out one athlete has a chance to pick up two Diamond Trophies on Friday night. &quot;Tianna Bartoletta is one of the long jump favourites along with Brittney Reese and Darya Klishina. As a reserve she will also appear on the 100 metres. The American can do the double at the Memorial!&quot;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day before the AG Memorial Van Damme meeting director C\u00e9dric Van Branteghem discusses the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3294","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\/3294","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=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}