{"id":1428,"date":"2019-07-29T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/2019\/07\/29\/robert-michon-to-challenge-perkovic-in-the-discus\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T16:05:02","slug":"robert-michon-to-challenge-perkovic-in-the-discus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/robert-michon-to-challenge-perkovic-in-the-discus\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert-Michon to challenge Perkovic in the discus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In Stockholm and in Rabat in the IAAF Diamond League, the Croatian finished ahead of the French athlete, albeit without dominating proceedings (respectively 5th and 3rd for <b>Perkovic<\/b>, 8th and 10th for <b>Robert-Michon<\/b>). Since then though, the athlete from Lyon has secured a personal best for the season in Sotteville-l\u00e8s-Rouen (62.41m), a performance which has brought her closer to securing her ticket for Doha and the Worlds.<\/p>\n<p><b>Perkovic<\/b>\u2019s track record is impressive: double Olympic and World champion and five-time European champion. A tough one to compete against. And yet, the French athlete has been monopolising the hunt for podiums since 2013: the Olympic, World and European number two and bronze medallist in the London Worlds in 2017. And she\u2019s gradually raising her game, as demonstrated by her eighteenth French Elite champion title obtained on 28 July in Saint Etienne. In 39 duels, which have seen her gain the upper hand against the French athlete, the so-called \u2018discus queen\u2019, who has already snatched victory in Paris three times out of five participations, is seemingly streaks ahead. Will <b>M\u00e9lina Robert-Michon<\/b> manage to reverse the trend? Perhaps it\u2019s now or never.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9lina Robert-Michon is well behind Sandra Perkovic in their current face-off. However, she\u2019s...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}