{"id":1391,"date":"2014-06-02T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/2014\/06\/02\/golden-gala-the-first-athletes-arrive-in-rome\/"},"modified":"2014-06-02T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:44:00","slug":"golden-gala-the-first-athletes-arrive-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/golden-gala-the-first-athletes-arrive-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Gala: the first athletes arrive in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the first athletes to arrive in the Eternal City there are Justin <strong>Gatlin<\/strong>, who won the 100 metres last year beatingJamaican Usain Bolt, Lashawn <strong>Merritt<\/strong>, who clocked an impressive 43.97 on Saturday evening in Eugene and Will <strong>Claye<\/strong>, who leapt to 17.66 in the Eugene Diamond League meeting, Australian Sally <strong>Pearson<\/strong>, Olympic and World champion in the 100 metres hurdles. They had a long day of rest to recover from the jet-leg. Two defections in the cast of the meeting: U.S. hurdler Lashinda <strong>Demus<\/strong> (400hs) and the French sprinter Jimmy <strong>Vicaut<\/strong> (100m). <\/p>\n<p><strong>CLINICS: GATLIN AND PEARSON WITH 150 YOUNGSTERS<\/strong><br \/>Tomorrow (Tuesday 3rd June) the traditional kids\u2019 clinic will take place in the Marmi Stadium Pietro Mennea with some stars of the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea and young Rome athletes. No less than 150 students from the athletics schools of the Lazio Regional Fidal Committee, will attend the athletics clinic with Australian hurdler Sally Pearson, US sprinter Justin Gatlin, St. Kitts and Nevis sprinter Kim Collins and Italian 100 metres hurdler Veronica Borsi.<strong><link http:\/\/www.ticketone.it\/biglietti-golden-gala-2014-roma.html?affiliate=ITT&#038;doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&#038;fun=artist&#038;action=tickets&#038;key=1136507%243698711&#038;jumpIn=yTix&#038;kuid=465829&#038;from=erdetaila><\/link><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><link http:\/\/www.ticketone.it\/biglietti-golden-gala-2014-roma.html?affiliate=ITT&#038;doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&#038;fun=artist&#038;action=tickets&#038;key=1136507%243698711&#038;jumpIn=yTix&#038;kuid=465829&#038;from=erdetaila>TICKETS<\/link><\/strong> <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><link http:\/\/www.diamondleague-rome.com\/Live-StartlistsResults\/Overview\/>&#8211; GOLDEN GALA &quot;Pietro Mennea&quot; 2014 &#8211; ENTRY LISTS\/Timetable<\/link><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW US on&nbsp;<link http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/goldengala _blank - Facebook>Facebook<\/link>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/goldengala_roma _blank - Twitter>Twitter @goldengala_roma<\/link><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first athletes who will take part in the 34th edition of the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea, the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}