{"id":3680,"date":"2026-06-01T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:45:59","slug":"lyles-has-arrived-stars-are-coming-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/lyles-has-arrived-stars-are-coming-to-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyles has arrived, stars are coming to Rome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The world&#8217;s biggest athletics stars are arriving in <strong>Rome<\/strong>, and the atmosphere is already building ahead of the <strong>Golden Gala Pietro Mennea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 12:15 p.m., Olympic 100-meter champion Noah <strong>Lyles <\/strong>landed at Rome&#8217;s Fiumicino Airport. Wearing a hooded sweatshirt, dark sunglasses, and showing complete focus, Lyles is preparing for Thursday night&#8217;s highly anticipated showdown at the Stadio Olimpico at 10:52 p.m. against Jacobs, Tebogo, Anthony, and many other sprint stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the official event hotel, Lyles had lunch with reigning world champion in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay, Melissa <strong>Jefferson-Wooden<\/strong>, who completed her first training session in Rome early in the afternoon. Training sessions will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Stadio dei Marmi, with free stand access for all fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the day, more international champions arrived in the Italian capital, including shot put star Ryan Crouser, Tebogo himself, and sprinter Dina Asher-Smith. Most of the line up for the 46th edition of the event will arrive in Rome tomorrow for the Italian leg of the Wanda Diamond League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s biggest athletics stars are arriving in Rome, and the atmosphere is already...","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":3685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rome-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}