{"id":3298,"date":"2017-08-31T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2017\/08\/31\/thiam-to-celebrate-world-title-with-belgian-fans\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T18:05:13","slug":"thiam-to-celebrate-world-title-with-belgian-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2017\/08\/31\/thiam-to-celebrate-world-title-with-belgian-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiam to celebrate world title with Belgian fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Brussels Thiam will make her first major appearance after winning the heptathlon gold medal at the world championships in London. \u201cBeing able to celebrate that world title with the Belgian crowd is very special,\u201d Thiam said ahead of the event. \u201cIt\u2019s a pleasure to be here. A few years ago I came to the Memorial as a spectator with my club. Now I\u2019m coming to celebrate a gold medal. Everything has changed.\u201d&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thiam recovered from her exploits with a long vacation in Miami, so she\u2019s keen to keep the expectations low. Also, this year the women\u2019s high jump is a Diamond League final event, unlike last year when Thiam competed in an event tailored to her level. \u201cI\u2019m not expecting an outstanding performance,\u201d Thiam explained. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI just had a long rest. I ran a little bit, but I didn\u2019t do any specific training. I\u2019m really looking forward to a good jump, but don\u2019t expect a 2m04,\u201d she laughed, holding a personal best of 1m98. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thiam doesn\u2019t regret going on vacation straight after the world championships, rather than delaying her break until after her home event. \u201cI need some rest and I wanted to get away from all the tension,\u201d she added. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s nice to make everything stop. It was the only possible period to go on vacation. But I can\u2019t wait for the Memorial to begin!&quot;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic and world heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam is taking part in the AG Memorial Van Damme to...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3298","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\/3298","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=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}