{"id":17341,"date":"2012-10-11T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17341"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:36:45","slug":"usain-bolt-says-hell-defend-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17341","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt Says  He\u2019ll Defend Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUCKLAND, New Zealand \u2014\u00a0<strong>Usain\u00a0Bolt\u00a0<\/strong>will aim for a three-peat of Olympic sprint titles in the 100 and 200 meters at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, rather than trying out a new event.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0<strong>Bolt\u00a0<\/strong>became the first man to successfully defend both sprint titles at the London Olympics, he was coy about his prospects of competing in Rio, and there was speculation he could switch to the long jump or 400 for a new challenge.<\/p>\n<p>But during a promotional visit to New Zealand on Monday, the self-declared \u201cliving legend\u201d said his plan for 2016 \u201cis all about just going and defending my titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUCKLAND, New Zealand \u2014\u00a0Usain\u00a0Bolt\u00a0will aim for a three-peat of Olympic sprint titles in the 100 and 200 meters at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, rather than trying out a new event. After\u00a0Bolt\u00a0became the first man to successfully defend both sprint titles at the London Olympics, he was coy about his prospects of competing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}