{"id":3534,"date":"2022-09-01T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2022\/09\/01\/fraser-pryce-challenges-duplantis-to-sprint-duel\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:04:50","slug":"fraser-pryce-challenges-duplantis-to-sprint-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2022\/09\/01\/fraser-pryce-challenges-duplantis-to-sprint-duel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser-Pryce challenges Duplantis to sprint duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Say, Mondo, how fast are you in the 100 metres &#8230; against me?&#8221; Stunned and after some hesitation, Mondo said, &#8220;I would beat you!&#8221; But Fraser-Pryce did not believe that. &#8220;How many metres do you have to run in the pole vault? 20 metres?&#8221; Duplantis replied that his run-up is 45 metres and that he used to run &nbsp;100 metres a lot in high school. &#8220;But that was five years ago?!&#8221;, Fraser-Pryce responded with (fake) scorn. &#8220;But I am much faster now than I was five years ago,&#8221; Duplantis replied wittily. &#8220;Do we want to bet on it?&#8221;, Fraser-Pryce asked. Duplantis eagerly accepted the challenge, after which they officially shook on it.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting Director Kim Gevaert, who was leading the press conference, immediately capitalised on it. &#8220;If you want, we will organise that 100 metres for you at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme next year?&#8221; Mondo immediately agreed: &#8220;Yes, next year in Brussels, a 100 metres between me and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, that&#8217;s settled!&#8221;, laughed the Swede.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Next year in Brussels. Me against Shelly-Ann!&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realshellyannfp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@realshellyannfp<\/a> vs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mondohoss600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mondohoss600<\/a><\/p>\n<p> It. Is. On. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrusselsDL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BrusselsDL<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DiamondLeague?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DiamondLeague<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AtVSfzfxq8\">pic.twitter.com\/AtVSfzfxq8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Diamond_League\/status\/1565316961067753474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarkable and funny moment at the end of the press conference: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3534","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\/3534","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=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}