{"id":177824,"date":"2024-08-03T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-im-perfecting-my-last-kick-komen-says-after-cruising-into-1500m-paris-olympics-semis\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T05:51:00","slug":"kenya-im-perfecting-my-last-kick-komen-says-after-cruising-into-1500m-paris-olympics-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-im-perfecting-my-last-kick-komen-says-after-cruising-into-1500m-paris-olympics-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: I&#8217;m Perfecting My Last Kick, Komen Says After Cruising Into 1500m Paris Olympics Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Paris, France \u2014 <em>With an apparently insatiable appetite for success, Kenya&#8217;s 1500m hopeful Brian Komen is hinting at a possible &#8216;killer instinct&#8217; ahead of the men&#8217;s 1500m semis slated for August 4.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Komen qualified 2nd to the semifinals in heat one incidentally on his maiden Olympic Games appearance and carries an air of confidence into the next phase of competition which will precede the finals on August 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Kenyan athlete bossed the opening lap before crossing the finish line in second behind&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408020364.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 With an apparently insatiable appetite for success, Kenya&#8217;s 1500m hopeful Brian Komen is hinting at a possible &#8216;killer instinct&#8217; ahead of the men&#8217;s 1500m semis slated for August 4. Komen qualified 2nd to the semifinals in heat one incidentally on his maiden Olympic Games appearance and carries an air of confidence into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177825,"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":[38588,258,256,11635,4688,430,6359,48887,257,12022,15620,49217,7128,254],"class_list":["post-177824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-1500m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cruising","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kick","tag-komen","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-perfecting","tag-semis","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/177824","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=177824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}