{"id":1313,"date":"2018-07-03T07:35:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T07:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/2018\/07\/03\/the-shot-put-safely-in-port\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T07:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T07:35:42","slug":"the-shot-put-safely-in-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/the-shot-put-safely-in-port\/","title":{"rendered":"The shot put safely in port!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The perfect opportunity then for spectators to see Kevin Mayer in action. The Frenchman, World decathlon champion, will have a chance to improve his game alongside the world\u2019s elite. These include American Ryan Crouser, reigning Olympic champion and the top Frenchman to date, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dag\u00e9e.<\/div>\n<div>Among the ladies, the competition will take on a festival feel\u2026 Together with the Chinese athlete Lijiao Gong (reigning World champion), the Hungarian Anita Marton (2nd in the Olympic Games) , the Jamaican Danniel Thomas-Dodd (2nd in the Indoor Worlds back in the winter), the&nbsp;American Michelle Carter ( reigning Olympic champion) and the New Zealander Valerie Adams (double Olympic champion and four-time World champion), the Port Hercule will doubtless never have been so aptly named.<\/div>\n<div><b>Kevin Mayer doubles up<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Mayer is an all-rounder. Becoming a star of French and World athletics since his silver medal at the Games in 2016, then his world title in 2017, he absolutely adores the buzz of the major meetings, the fervour of a stadium and the public support.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div>To put the finishing touches to his lightning progress, he hopes to do battle with the best in the world in the individual events. On the Rock, the Frenchman will link together the shot put (on the Thursday in the port) and the 110m hurdles (on the Friday). It\u2019s an opportunity to progress within a specific context, to put oneself against the best in the world and push back one\u2019s limits, Generally, he makes the most of these sessions of two or three events to shatter his personal bests and also put on a show of course. Spectators be warned\u2026<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strongmen of athletics, together with their female colleagues, will kick-off proceedings on...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1313","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\/1313","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=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}