{"id":3350,"date":"2018-08-29T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2018\/08\/29\/art-learning-experience-at-the-ag-memorial-van-damme\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:53:12","slug":"art-learning-experience-at-the-ag-memorial-van-damme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2018\/08\/29\/art-learning-experience-at-the-ag-memorial-van-damme\/","title":{"rendered":"Art: \u2018Learning experience at the AG Memorial Van Damme&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u201cWhether I am going to perform well or not, it\u2019s going to be a great learning experience,\u201d Art said on Wednesday\u2019s chat with the media.\u201cIt\u2019s a monstrously strong line-up. For me it\u2019s a great honour to compete against the world\u2019s best with a wildcard.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last weekend Art competed at the AG Urban Memorial Van Damme in Antwerp, featuring a spectacular pole vault stand installed on top of the Bonaparte dock. Art cleared 5m53 but narrowly missed 5m73, which would have been a new Belgian record. Is he saving best for last at the Memorial? \u201cI am going to try, but I feel pretty tired after a long and hard season. I\u2019m aching everywhere. But the home crowd will definitely give me a boost.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s my first Memorial as an athlete, but I used to come and watch often. I remember very well how I supported Denis Goossens and Kevin Rans back in the day,\u201d said the man from Liege, who is set to compete against stars like Renaud Lavillenie and Armand Duplantis.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&quot;Lavillenie, Duplantis and Sam Kendricks are the favourites for me,\u201dadded Art, who is predicting a winning jump of over 5m90. Art is expecting a lot from the pole vault\u2019s new Swedish superstar, Armand Duplantis. The 18-year-old phenom took a European gold medal with a jump of 6m05. &quot;Pole vaulting is like breathing for him. It seems so effortless. I am sure that one day he will break the world record of Lavillenie (6m16) Who knows he\u2019ll do it on Friday!&quot;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnaud Art is two days away from his first appearance at the AG Memorial Van Damme. The Belgian...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3350","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\/3350","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=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}