{"id":3303,"date":"2017-09-01T23:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T23:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2017\/09\/01\/nafi-now-we-celebrate-oh-oh-oh\/"},"modified":"2017-09-01T23:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T23:30:51","slug":"nafi-now-we-celebrate-oh-oh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2017\/09\/01\/nafi-now-we-celebrate-oh-oh-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nafi now we celebrate, oh oh oh&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thiam, the reigning world and Olympic champion on the heptathlon, took part in the high jump event in Brussels, placing fourth with 1.88m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a well-deserved vacation I can\u2019t be disappointed abut my performance,\u201d said Thiam, who cleared 1.88m at the second attempt but couldn\u2019t find a way past 1.91m.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe AG Memorial Van Damme went as expected. I was looking forward to experiencing the atmosphere in Brussels and I wanted to celebrate my season with the Belgian public. After my world title I took a month-long vacation. This was all I could do, so I\u2019m satisfied with my performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I start training again in October I will tak another six weeks to rest. In two weeks the new academic year will start again. I am into my third bachelor year in geography. After that I\u2019ll be 25 years old. That sounds like the ideal age to fully focus on athletics.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI will keep working and training. If in the meantime I can motivate people to exercise and make the sport of athletics bigger, then that\u2019s even better!&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>COELY SINGS FOR NAFI<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After her sportive performance in the King Baudouin Stadium Thiam enjoyed a musical performance by Coely, who adapted the lyrics of her breakout hit single &#8216;Celebrate\u2019 for Thiam. The chorus &#8216;Momma now we celebrate, oh oh oh&#8217; turned into &#8216;Nafi now we celebrate, oh oh oh&#8217;. The crowd sang along with lots of enthusiasm while Nafi thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful homage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-jwVLJk_fo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53JcP2fxnKE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nafi Thiam has celebrated her fantastic season with the Belgian public at the AG Memorial Van...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3303","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\/3303","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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}