{"id":1418,"date":"2012-05-23T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/2012\/05\/23\/new-stars-at-compeed-golden-gala\/"},"modified":"2012-05-23T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T11:42:00","slug":"new-stars-at-compeed-golden-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/new-stars-at-compeed-golden-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"New stars at Compeed Golden Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight days to go to the <strong>Compeed Gala<\/strong>. The big meeting scheduled on Thursday <strong>31st May<\/strong> at the Olympic Stadium in <strong>Rome<\/strong> is approaching and new scintillating names add to the great cast of the third leg of the <strong>2012 Samsung Diamond League<\/strong>. In the 100 metres hurdles Lolo <strong>Jones<\/strong>, twice world indoor champion (2008 and 2010) in the 60 metres hurdles with a PB of 12.43 in 2008 but only seventh at the Bejing Olympic Games, will line-up on the Olympic Stadium\u2019s track. She shares the same time as her compatriot Michelle <strong>Perry<\/strong>, twice world champion in Helsinki 2005 and Osaka 2007, who will also compete in the Eternal city\u2019s meeting. The Stars and Stripes flag will be also represented by Bejing 2008 gold medallist Dawn <strong>Harper<\/strong> and Daegu 2011 World silver medallist Danielle <strong>Carruthers <\/strong>who will take on Canadian Priscilla <strong>Lopes Schliep<\/strong> and Great Britain\u2019s Tiffany <strong>Porter<\/strong>. In this world-class race Italian hopes will be carried by fresh National record holder Marzia <strong>Caravelli<\/strong>. In the women\u2019s triple jump two more big stars add their names to the line-up which already features World Indoor champion Yamile <strong>Aldama<\/strong> and European Indoor champion and European Outdoor silver medallist Simona <strong>La Mantia<\/strong>. They are reigning world champion Olga <strong>Saladukha<\/strong> (PB 14.98) from the Ukraine and Russian Tatyana <strong>Lebedeva<\/strong> who won three olympic medals (two silvers and one bronze) and five world medals (two gold, one silver outdoors and one gold and one silver indoors) in this event. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a new rival adds his name to the super-fast men\u2019s 100 metres which features the already announced Usain <strong>Bolt<\/strong>, Asafa <strong>Powell<\/strong>, Christophe <strong>Lemaitre<\/strong> and Kim <strong>Collins<\/strong>. The fifth sprinter in the line-up will be Jamaican Lerone <strong>Clarke<\/strong>, whoequalled his PB from 2009 clocking 9.99 in Doha.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TICKETS:<\/strong> The ticket sales for the Compeed Golden Gala are continuing. There are four price categories. The prices range from 5 Euros for the \u201ccurve and distinti\u201d sector (with the exception of the finish-line in the South-West sector) to 30 Euros of the finish-line sector of the Monte Mario Main Stand. Tickets can be bought on the Internet via the TicketOne website (<strong>www.ticketone.it<\/strong>), the ticket company of the Compeed Golden Gala, in the official outlets and at the ticket offices of the Foro Italico\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <link http:\/\/www.ticketone.it\/compeed-golden-gala-biglietti.html?affiliate=ITT&#038;doc=artistPages\/tickets&#038;fun=artist&#038;action=tickets&#038;kuid=465829>TICKETS<\/link><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211; <link https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/goldengala>FACEBOOK<\/link><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lolo Jones and Michelle Perry on 100hs, triple jump with Saladukha and Lebedeva<\/p>\n","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-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}