{"id":1446,"date":"2010-05-04T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/2010\/05\/04\/powell-fraser-spotakova-three-more-ambassadors-for-the-golden-gala\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:23:00","slug":"powell-fraser-spotakova-three-more-ambassadors-for-the-golden-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/powell-fraser-spotakova-three-more-ambassadors-for-the-golden-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Powell, Fraser, Spotakova: three more Ambassadors for the Golden Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The names of three more <strong>IAAF Diamond League Ambassadors<\/strong> have been communicated by the Organising Committee of the <strong>Golden Gala<\/strong> this morning in <strong>Rome<\/strong>, as part of the list of the 40 top participants at the meeting which takes place on<strong> 10 June<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Jamaica\u2019s <strong>Asafa Powell<\/strong> and<strong> Shelly Ann Fraser<\/strong>, together with Czech <strong>Barbora Spotakova<\/strong>, will take part in a great 30th edition of the Rome\u2019s Golden Gala, the fourth leg of the 2010 IAAF Diamond League. The three stars will be joined in Rome by<strong> Blanka Vlasic<\/strong> and <strong>Kenenisa Bekele<\/strong>, the two other ambassadors already announced by the Golden Gala. <\/p>\n<p>The full list of athletes distributed to Media this morning in a crowded press conference in the Olympic Stadium, which had as its guests of honour two Italian stars, high jumper Antonietta Di Martino and long jumper Andrew Howe, gave many other reasons to \u201cstay tuned\u201d to this year\u2019s Golden Gala.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Gala also confirmed the participation of Cuba\u2019s Dayron Robles in the 110m Hurdles, USA\u2019s Jeremy Wariner against compatriot Angelo Taylor in the 400m, Panama\u2019s Irving Saladino taking on USA\u2019s Dwight Phillips in the Long Jump, and Estonia\u2019s Gerd Kanter in the Discus Throw.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a real parade of stars in the Shot Put. USA\u2019s Christian Cantwell will face teammate Reese Hoffa, Poland\u2019s Tomasz Majewski and Germany\u2019s Ralf Bartels, while the women\u2019s Pole Vault will present Brazil\u2019s World Indoor champion Fabiana Murer, who will contend with the Polish duo of World outdoor champion Anna Rogowska and World silver medallist Monica Pyrek.<\/p>\n<p>Another thrilling event will be the women\u2019s 400m Hurdles, with the entire podium of the last edition of the World Championships taking part: Jamaica\u2019s Melaine Walker, USA\u2019s Lashinda Demus and Trinidad &amp;amp; Tobago\u2019s Josanne Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>The list of Top participants was presented by FIDAL (the Italian Federation of Athletics) President Franco Arese, together with CONI (the Italian Olympic Committee) President Gianni Petrucci.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am convinced,\u201d said Arese, \u201cthat Rome will offer a memorable edition of the Golden Gala. The best way we had to honour the \u201cfather\u201d of the meeting, our unforgettable Primo Nebiolo.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>See &#8216;Related Content&#8217; underneath the photo to the right of this text to download the <strong>Top Participants list<\/strong> (PDF) as of 4 May 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010 IAAF Diamond League Calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doha (QAT) \u2013 Fri 14 May<br \/>Shanghai (CHN) \u2013 Sun 23 May<br \/>Oslo (NOR) \u2013 Fri 4 June<br \/><strong>Rome (ITA) \u2013 Thu 10 June <\/strong><br \/>New York (USA) \u2013 Sat 12 June<br \/>Eugene (USA) \u2013 Sat 3 July<br \/>Lausanne (SUI) \u2013 Thu 8 July<br \/>Gateshead (GBR) \u2013 Sat 10 July<br \/>Paris (FRA) \u2013 Fri 16 July<br \/>Monaco (MON) \u2013 Thu 22 July<br \/>Stockholm (SWE) \u2013 Fri 6 Aug<br \/>London (GBR) \u2013 Fri 13 and Sat 14 Aug<br \/>Z\u00fcrich (SUI) \u2013 Thu 19 Aug<br \/>Brussels (BEL) \u2013 Fri 27 Aug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The names of three more IAAF Diamond League Ambassadors have been communicated by the Organising...","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-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","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=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}