{"id":1988,"date":"2016-06-24T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/2016\/06\/24\/lea-sprunger-after-rio-athletissima\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:06:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:06:26","slug":"lea-sprunger-after-rio-athletissima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/lea-sprunger-after-rio-athletissima\/","title":{"rendered":"Lea Sprunger : \u00ab After Rio, Athletissima ! \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To assure the presence of many Olympic heroes, <a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>the four big meetings of Lausanne, Paris, Zurich and Bruxelles will work together to offer Rio\u2019s medallists a bonus of respectively 5000 $, 3000 $ and 1000 $.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights of the evening will be the sprints (men\u2019s 200 and 400, women\u2019s 100 m), men\u2019s and women\u2019s high and low hurdles, as well as men\u2019s long jump and pole vault competitions. Plus the high point of the night: an explosive 1000 m starring the best 800 m and 1500 m specialists.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Swiss Stars in La Pontaise<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>More than ever, all the Swiss Stars will stir the crowd in Lausanne. The two 400 m hurdles are particularly full of promises: on the women\u2019s side, Lea Sprunger will be looking to put her home stadium on fire: \u201cAfter Rio, I will be thinking only about one thing: Athletissima and all the people I love in the stadium to cheer me\u201d, said the local athlete looking as sharp as ever. <\/p>\n<p>On the men\u2019s side, the 2014 European champion Kariem Hussein will have only one goal, the same as every time he is at the start of a race in Switzerland or all over the world: to win it all. <\/p>\n<p>On 100 m, the Swiss sprint princess <b>Mujinga Kambundji <\/b>will also be there. \u00ab&nbsp;When I think about Lausanne, I immediately imagine the crowd, very close, and the amazing atmosphere\u00bb, told the 100 m, 200 m and 4&#215;100 m Swiss record-holder. <\/p>\n<p>The big Swiss attraction on the 800 m will be the indoor European champion <b>Selina B\u00fcchel<\/b>. Not to mention the women\u2019s <b>4&#215;100 m<\/b>, who showed great potential for its first appearance of the year on the 11th of June in Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months away from the 41st edition of Athletissima, the organisers will fly to the American...","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-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lausanne"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}