{"id":3416,"date":"2019-09-04T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2019\/09\/04\/walsh-and-crouser-beach-boys-versus-rock\/"},"modified":"2019-09-04T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:28:00","slug":"walsh-and-crouser-beach-boys-versus-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2019\/09\/04\/walsh-and-crouser-beach-boys-versus-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsh and Crouser: Beach Boys versus rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>With 22m74 Crouser is the man behind the world\u2019s leading performance in 2019. Walsh, the defending Diamond League champion, managed to get as far as 22m44 this year, which also happens to be the meet record in Brussels set by Darrell Hill.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThat meet record has to go,\u201d Walsh and Crouser agree. They also think street events are the future of athletics. \u201cIt gives us a lot of energy to have the crowd up close and fully focused on our competition\u201d, Crouser said. &quot;This is the future and it helps our sport move forward.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Walsh added: \u201cIt will be a great show tomorrow. It\u2019s also great that we can ask the DJ to play our favourite song before our throws. I\u2019m going to pick something from the Beach Boys. \u201cI prefer something heavier,\u201d his American colleague said. \u201cI\u2019ll ask for a heavy rock song!\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The shot put discipline has known a strong 2019 season with seven out of eight Diamond League finalists reaching 22 metres. \u201cYou can throw a meet record and still not be sure about winning,\u201d Walsh said. \u201cIt will be close until the final throw.&quot;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Walsh and Crouser are even dreaming of the world record, which was set at 23m12 in 1990 by Randy Barnes. Both athletes think the record is in danger. \u201cOur current generation is very strong and the past couple of years we\u2019ve made a lot of progress technically. Sooner or later the world record is going down and that would really good for our sport.&quot;<\/div>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HeU9TPBinWQ?list=PLM9EOD_Ium5ing6q3DfLsFUL_uhYQKWtp\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8A6oayakmpw?list=PLM9EOD_Ium5ing6q3DfLsFUL_uhYQKWtp\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AG Memorial Van Damme traditionally leaves the stadium for one discipline of the IAAF...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3416","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\/3416","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=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}