{"id":1704,"date":"2023-07-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/2023\/07\/01\/discus-trio-aiming-to-unleash-big-efforts-in-stockholm\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T13:00:00","slug":"discus-trio-aiming-to-unleash-big-efforts-in-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/discus-trio-aiming-to-unleash-big-efforts-in-stockholm\/","title":{"rendered":"Discus trio aiming to unleash big efforts in Stockholm\u00a0\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- bblive widget --><\/p>\n<div data-bblive-stream=\"Skpojaanu\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A trio of discus-throwing stars assembled to speak to the world\u2019s media ahead of Sunday&#8217;s Stockholm BAUHAUS-galan &#8211; the seventh stage of the Wanda Diamond League season &#8211; with home hope, Daniel St\u00e5hl the main attraction.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 30-year-old Swede and Olympic champion was victorious in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 event and St\u00e5hl is looking to clinch a fourth win in Stockholm\u2019s Olympic stadium tomorrow:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m really excited to throw in my hometown against a strong field so it\u2019s going to be a crazy competition,\u201d the 2019 world champion explained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019ve recently changed my coach and I\u2019m enjoying the sport more now, so I hope to be able to continue for many more years and I hope to keep throwing far for as long as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">World number one, Kristjan \u010ceh will aim to add to his victory in Doha in May and the 24-year-old Slovenian is in fine form &#8211; having thrown an impressive 71.86m national record last month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The winner in Stockholm twelve months ago before his world championship win in Eugene, \u010ceh revealed:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s windy today and the wind is always welcome &#8211; I think it will be good conditions tomorrow and the field is very good, we have three men over 71m so it will take a lot to win for sure but I\u2019m confident.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, their bemedalled female counterpart, Sandra Perkovi\u0107 &#8211; the 2012 and 2016 Olympic discus champion &#8211; joined the duo and like St\u00e5hl, the 33-year-old Croatian spoke of her goal to achieve great longevity in the sport:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI do hope to have another ten more years in this sport &#8211; every day in training is enjoyable and it\u2019s a great honour to compete here.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere\u2019s nothing more beautiful in life than to do the job you love the most,\u201d Perkovi\u0107 said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A two-time world champion and six-time European champion, she finished runner-up in Paris last month and placed third in Oslo a fortnight ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bblive.bildbyran.se\/embed\/6246_Skpojaanu?bblive=nodebug\" type=\"application\/javascript\"><\/script><!-- bblive widget end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of discus-throwing stars assembled to speak to the world\u2019s media ahead of...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stockholm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}