{"id":177780,"date":"2024-08-02T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-paris-olympics-confident-timothy-cheruiyot-saving-his-best-for-the-1500m-showdown\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:49:14","slug":"kenya-paris-olympics-confident-timothy-cheruiyot-saving-his-best-for-the-1500m-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-paris-olympics-confident-timothy-cheruiyot-saving-his-best-for-the-1500m-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Paris Olympics &#8211; Confident Timothy Cheruiyot Saving His Best for the 1500m Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Paris, France \u2014 <em>Running a successful 1500m race entails a unique blend of strength, speed, endurance as well as mental toughness and Kenya&#8217;s 1500m star Timothy Cheruiyot is leaving nothing to chance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Tokyo Olympics 1500m silver medalist says running with a strategy at the ongoing Olympics in Paris will enable him conserve energy and run more efficiently, as well as faster in the upcoming races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Should he qualify for the final, Cheruiyot hopes he&#8217;ll pull away from the competition while also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408020468.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, France \u2014 Running a successful 1500m race entails a unique blend of strength, speed, endurance as well as mental toughness and Kenya&#8217;s 1500m star Timothy Cheruiyot is leaving nothing to chance. The Tokyo Olympics 1500m silver medalist says running with a strategy at the ongoing Olympics in Paris will enable him conserve energy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[38588,258,256,30805,4376,4688,430,257,12022,15620,8418,11502,254,15466],"class_list":["post-177780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-1500m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cheruiyot","tag-confident","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-saving","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today","tag-timothy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}