{"id":176,"date":"2009-06-12T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2009-06-12T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T22:13:00","slug":"golden-league-begins-sunday-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Golden League Begins Sunday in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Golden League Circuit begins Sunday with its first stop in Berlin. This year’s “golden” events are:<\/p>\n

Men – 100, 400, 3000\/5000, 110H, Javelin
Women – 100, 400, 100H, High Jump, Pole Vault<\/p>\n

The individual(s) that can win their event at every stop of the tour will win or share in a $1,000,000 prize. The stops are Berlin (6\/14), Oslo (7\/3), Rome (7\/10), Paris (7\/17), Zurich (8\/28) and Brussels (9\/4). <\/p>\n

Berlin will not only be the first stop of the Golden League, but will also give individuals an opportunity at something of a dress rehearsal for the World Championships as this year’s Worlds will be held in the same venue. The meet’s Preliminary Start List can be found here<\/a>. Notable competitors are:<\/p>\n

Kerron Stewart (JAM) – women’s 100
Sanya Richards (US) – women’s 400
Damu Cherry (US) – women’s 100H
Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) & Blank Vlasic (CRO) – women’s high jump
Yelena Isinbaeva (RUS) – women’s pole vault<\/p>\n

Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) – men’s 5000
Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR) – men’s javelin<\/p>\n

Missing a lot of names on the men’s side, but still enough competition to keep the meet interesting. Perhaps a bit too close to many National Championship meets – something the Golden League needs to consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Golden League Circuit begins Sunday with its first stop in Berlin. This year’s “golden” events are: Men – 100, 400, 3000\/5000, 110H, JavelinWomen – 100, 400, 100H, High Jump, Pole Vault The individual(s) that can win their event at every stop of the tour will win or share in a $1,000,000 prize. The stops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa3DCY-2Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}