{"id":2098,"date":"2017-08-12T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/12\/agonising-fourth-for-dina-asher-smith-as-dafne-schippers-strikes-200m-gold\/"},"modified":"2017-08-12T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T22:09:03","slug":"agonising-fourth-for-dina-asher-smith-as-dafne-schippers-strikes-200m-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2098","title":{"rendered":"Agonising fourth for Dina Asher-Smith as Dafne Schippers strikes 200m gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 British sprinter is fifth GB athlete to finish fourth in the championships\u2022 Dutchwoman Schippers successfully defends her titleDina Asher-Smith has endured her fair share of pain this season with a gruelling recovery from a broken foot but the agony of missing out on 200m bronze by seven hundredths of a second should not cloud the scale of her comeback.The 21-year-old would surely have won her first global senior medal had her season not been decimated by a fractured navicular bone in February. But she lowered her season\u2019s best by half a second to finish fourth in 22.22sec as the Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers defended her title. In another couple of steps Asher-Smith would have run down Shaunae Miller-Uibo, the Bahamian. And with another couple of months\u2019 training under her belt, who knows what might have transpired. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/aug\/11\/dina-asher-smith-dafne-schippers-200m-world-athletics-championships\" target=\"_blank\">Agonising fourth for Dina Asher-Smith as Dafne Schippers strikes 200m gold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 British sprinter is fifth GB athlete to finish fourth in the championships\u2022 Dutchwoman Schippers successfully defends her titleDina Asher-Smith has endured her fair share of pain this season with a gruelling recovery from a broken foot but the agony of missing out on 200m bronze by seven hundredths of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}