{"id":2232,"date":"2017-08-13T01:17:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T23:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/13\/asha-philip-and-co-thrilled-to-win-womens-world-4x100m-silver-for-gb\/"},"modified":"2017-08-13T01:17:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T23:17:15","slug":"asha-philip-and-co-thrilled-to-win-womens-world-4x100m-silver-for-gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2232","title":{"rendered":"Asha Philip and co thrilled to win women\u2019s world 4x100m silver for GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Asha Philip, Desir\u00e8e Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita take medals\u2022 \u2018We had a couple of precarious moments but we got it round,\u2019 says PhilipA mixed week for British athletes at these world championships in London is suddenly encased in a silver lining. Last year Britain\u2019s talented women\u2019s 4x100m squad took an unexpected bronze in the Olympics. Now they have an upgrade to silver. Given Asha Philip, Desir\u00e8e Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita have age on their side, a global title may yet be next on the list.True, their time of 42.12sec in the final was not among the quickest. In fact it was nearly two tenths slower than they managed in their morning heat. But they handled the pressure of a couple of rickety changeovers to finish a deserved second behind a US team spearheaded by Allyson Felix and Tori Bowie. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/aug\/12\/asha-philip-womens-world-4x100m-silver-gb\" target=\"_blank\">Asha Philip and co thrilled to win women\u2019s world 4x100m silver for GB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Asha Philip, Desir\u00e8e Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita take medals\u2022 \u2018We had a couple of precarious moments but we got it round,\u2019 says PhilipA mixed week for British athletes at these world championships in London is suddenly encased in a silver lining. Last year Britain\u2019s talented women\u2019s 4x100m [&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-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","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=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}