{"id":1247,"date":"2016-05-18T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/2016\/05\/18\/genzebe-dibaba-returns-to-monaco\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:43:00","slug":"genzebe-dibaba-returns-to-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/genzebe-dibaba-returns-to-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Genzebe DIBABA returns to Monaco!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 560\/315\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fn6jVWbGmmxM&#038;video_width=560&#038;video_height=315)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n6jVWbGmmxM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">On this occasion, DIBABA will be on running the 3000m, in an attempt to add a third meeting record to her palmares (The meeting record was set&nbsp;<\/span>by Gabriela SZABO with 8: 21.42&nbsp;in&nbsp;July 19th, 2002, and&nbsp;which&nbsp;is&nbsp;still&nbsp;the current European record).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; break-inside: auto; widows: 2; orphans: 2; break-after: auto; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; \"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">With a personal best and African record&nbsp;<\/span>of 8:16.60&nbsp;established&nbsp;at the indoor meeting&nbsp;in Stockholm in 2014, DIBABA will have all&nbsp;the cards in hand to write her&nbsp;name once again in&nbsp;the&nbsp;history of&nbsp;Herculis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; break-inside: auto; widows: 2; orphans: 2; break-after: auto; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; \"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">Indeed, everyone still has in mind the 5000m in 2014 where she established a new&nbsp;<\/span>world lead and&nbsp;a meeting record of 14:28.88, but especially her&nbsp;victory last year in the 1500m&nbsp;in 3:50.07&nbsp;that has&nbsp;not only allowed her&nbsp;to&nbsp;set off&nbsp;the&nbsp;previous&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"NL\">meeting<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">record&nbsp;<\/span>which was 3:56.97 by SZABO in 1998, but above all to establish a new world record, erasing the previous&nbsp;one&nbsp;of 3: 50.48&nbsp;which was&nbsp;23 years&nbsp;old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; break-inside: auto; widows: 2; orphans: 2; break-after: auto; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; \"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">And&nbsp;<\/span>to not&nbsp;forget any information, the world record of the 3000m in 8:06.11&nbsp;was set in&nbsp;1993.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; break-inside: auto; widows: 2; orphans: 2; break-after: auto; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; \"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">As one of the last meetings before the Olympics<\/span>&nbsp;in Rio&nbsp;in August, Herculis Monaco will offer the&nbsp;athletes a final opportunity to tune their settings, offering to the&nbsp;loyal and numerous&nbsp;spectators&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"DE\">an undoubtedly<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">breathtaking&nbsp;<\/span>show !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already double winner in Monaco in 2014 and 2015, the 2015 world champion on 1500m comes back to...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monaco"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","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=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}