{"id":198938,"date":"2025-05-28T00:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-bol-makes-sparkling-diamond-league-return-as-tebogo-struggles\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T00:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:52:37","slug":"namibia-bol-makes-sparkling-diamond-league-return-as-tebogo-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-bol-makes-sparkling-diamond-league-return-as-tebogo-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Bol Makes Sparkling Diamond League Return As Tebogo Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Femke Bol, a triple medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, opened her 2025 individual season by cruising to victory in the 400m hurdles at the Diamond League meeting on Sunday in Rabat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo, who had planned to run both sprints, trailed in last in the men&#8217;s 100m and did not compete in the 200m, although a second Botswanan Tshepiso Masalela had a better night, delivering another impressive victory in the men&#8217;s 800m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Bol had not competed in an individual race since&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505270584.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femke Bol, a triple medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, opened her 2025 individual season by cruising to victory in the 400m hurdles at the Diamond League meeting on Sunday in Rabat. Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo, who had planned to run both sprints, trailed in last in the men&#8217;s 100m and did not compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,51462,7465,7027,4706,724,257,6656,254,51463,12928,39797],"class_list":["post-198938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bol","tag-diamond","tag-league","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparkling","tag-struggles","tag-tebogo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/198938","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}