{"id":43444,"date":"2025-08-19T18:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/hodgkinson-lyles-ehammer-best-of-of-the-press-conferences\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:00:12","slug":"hodgkinson-lyles-ehammer-best-of-of-the-press-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/hodgkinson-lyles-ehammer-best-of-of-the-press-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodgkinson, Lyles, Ehammer: best-of of the press conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emmanuel Wanyonyi:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u201cLast year in Lausanne was an incredible race for me (1:41.11). I was very proud, but I\u2019d like to run even faster. I\u2019m in great shape, and we\u2019ll have a good competition. You\u2019re asking if I know David Rudisha? Of course, we are friends. He told me that now it\u2019s my time to shine. But he has run 1:41 or faster seven times in his career. I just need to catch up, and then we\u2019ll talk about the world record (1:40.91).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Keely Hodgkinson:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u201cI\u2019m happy to be able to run without pain again after my hamstring injuries at the beginning of the year. I had to be patient to come back, but we were smart (me and my team) to wait until I was ready before competing again, without rushing things. We\u2019ll see how my body reacts here in Lausanne, four days after the Diamond League meet in Poland (1:54.74, just 0.13 shy of her lifetime best).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yaroslava Mahuchikh:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u201cWe always try to push higher. I keep setting new goals, such as meeting records, and I try not to lose, but the competition is getting stronger. Fortunately, high jump has changed in recent years. Now, we all support each other during competitions, and we feel a sense of solidarity among us high jumpers. It wasn\u2019t the case five years ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Noah Lyles:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u201cThis has been the oddest season for me so far; I\u2019ve never experienced a season like this. I usually have many races under my belt, but because of my injury and setbacks, I had to wait this year. Now, I\u2019m surprising myself with each race\u2014I\u2019m back, and I get more excited after every race. I was fired up after Poland (9.90 on Saturday, finishing second), much faster than at the Trials, and I want to keep improving just before Tokyo. I\u2019m super motivated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Simon Ehammer:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u201cI\u2019ve never managed to jump 8 meters in Switzerland before, neither in Lausanne nor Zurich. It\u2019s time to do it ahead of Tokyo. The starting list in Lausanne is quite similar to what I expect at the World Championships final, so it will be interesting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emmanuel Wanyonyi: \u201cLast year in Lausanne was an incredible race for me (1:41.11). I was very proud, but I\u2019d like to run even faster. I\u2019m in great shape, and we\u2019ll have a good competition. You\u2019re asking if I know David Rudisha? Of course, we are friends. He told me that now it\u2019s my time to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":43450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43462,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43444\/revisions\/43462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}