{"id":3349,"date":"2018-08-29T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2018\/08\/29\/baker-god-has-a-plan-for-me-and-its-not-9-78\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:22:00","slug":"baker-god-has-a-plan-for-me-and-its-not-9-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2018\/08\/29\/baker-god-has-a-plan-for-me-and-its-not-9-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker: &#8216;God has a plan for me. And it\u2019s not 9.78&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Baker is not lacking confidence, that\u2019s the impression we get after his Wednesday press conference in Brussels. On Friday night Baker will be the favourite to win the 100 metres of the Diamond League final at<\/div>\n<div>the AG Memorial Van Damme. With 9.87 the American is the fastest man of 2018. In Eugene he even ran 9.78, albeit too much aided by the wind.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cFor me it\u2019s not a surprise to be the fastest man of the year,\u201d former 400 metre runner Baker said. \u201cIt\u2019s always been my goal to be number one. I\u2019ve only started focussing on the 100 metres for three years. The strength I have with my 400 metre experience helps me to have a strong finish on the 100.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Diamond League is heading towards a climax with Friday\u2019s finale in Brussels. \u201cStill I don\u2019t feel tired after performing on the highest level for all these months. The fact that I ran a 9.87 last week in Poland proved that I have a lot left in the tank. I want to go even quicker at the Memorial. How quick? I can\u2019t say. Let me put it this way. God has a plan for me\u2026 and it\u2019s not 9.78. I know I can go quicker. A time that will shock the world.&quot;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Is Ronnie Baker the new Usain Bolt? It\u2019s a question that makes him chuckle. \u201cI get asked that question a lot. I\u2019m just trying to be the best Ronnie Baker. Of course it\u2019s nice that my name is being mentioned to fill the vacuum that Bolt left. His world record of 9.58 is amazing, but records are there to be broken. It\u2019s a shame I never got to run against him. I have never even met him.&quot;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In contrast to Bolt, Baker doesn\u2019t have a signature move before or after a race. \u201cNot really, no. I just do whatever comes up after a win. People will probably say whatever Bolt did was better or funnier anyway.&quot;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie Baker is this year\u2019s king of the 100 metres. The 24-year-old American already ran below...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3349","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\/3349","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=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}