{"id":205972,"date":"2025-08-31T17:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-duplantis-olyslagers-seal-diamond-league-final-wins\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:57:30","slug":"namibia-duplantis-olyslagers-seal-diamond-league-final-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-duplantis-olyslagers-seal-diamond-league-final-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Duplantis, Olyslagers Seal Diamond League Final Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Sweden&#8217;s Armand &#8216;Mondo&#8217; Duplantis and Australian Nicola Olyslagers sealed wins in the Diamond League finals in a high-octane &#8216;city event&#8217; in downtown Zurich on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Duplantis, fresh from setting a 13th world record of 6.29m in Budapest earlier this month, was competing in one of six field disciplines held at Zurich&#8217;s Sechselautenplatz, directly in front of the city&#8217;s iconic opera house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The US-born Swede had described the pole vault as a &#8220;beautiful circus act&#8221; and the street feel to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508280685.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>Sweden&#8217;s Armand &#8216;Mondo&#8217; Duplantis and Australian Nicola Olyslagers sealed wins in the Diamond League finals in a high-octane &#8216;city event&#8217; in downtown Zurich on Wednesday. Duplantis, fresh from setting a 13th world record of 6.29m in Budapest earlier this month, was competing in one of six field disciplines held at Zurich&#8217;s Sechselautenplatz, directly in front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205973,"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":[258,256,7465,52225,6038,7027,4706,724,257,52226,5120,254,6552],"class_list":["post-205972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-diamond","tag-duplantis","tag-final","tag-league","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-olyslagers","tag-seal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"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\/205972","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=205972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}