{"id":1216,"date":"2011-03-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/2011\/03\/03\/bolt-to-run-in-monaco-for-herculis-25th-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T06:00:00","slug":"bolt-to-run-in-monaco-for-herculis-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/bolt-to-run-in-monaco-for-herculis-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt to run in Monaco for Herculis\u2019 25th anniversary !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;quot;Arial&amp;amp;quot;,&amp;amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Usain Bolt will run the 100m at the Stade Louis II on July 22<sup>nd<\/sup> 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;quot;Arial&amp;amp;quot;,&amp;amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">The triple World record holder, triple Olympic and World champion has accepted the personal invitation made by H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, President of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Mon\u00e9gasque d\u2019Athl\u00e9tisme which organizes the meeting Herculis, 10<sup>th<\/sup> stage of the Samsung Diamond League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;quot;Arial&amp;amp;quot;,&amp;amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Over a year ago, while participating in France\u2019s most popular TV Sport Programme H.S.H. Prince Albert of Monaco expressed the desire to see Usain Bolt run in the Principality and extended an official invitation to the Jamaican. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;quot;Arial&amp;amp;quot;,&amp;amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Finally the perfect time has come for Usain Bolt to run in Monaco as the 2011 edition of the Herculis meeting is perfectly positioned on the international calendar, one month before the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, KOR. The 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the meeting will also take advantage of the new track of the Louis II stadium which proved its exceptional speed during last year\u2019s edition. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;quot;Arial&amp;amp;quot;,&amp;amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">As the champion says: \u201cI am really looking forward to running for the first time in Monaco. I have been there several times at the IAAF Gala but have never actually competed there.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Monaco is a beautiful place and when Prince Albert extended the invitation I could not say no.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>I like the warm weather and the fast track and hope to perform well in the Herculis meeting for its 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usain Bolt will run the 100m at the Stade Louis II on July 22nd 2011. The triple World record...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monaco"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}