{"id":696,"date":"2015-03-31T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/?p=696"},"modified":"2015-03-31T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T13:22:09","slug":"wirz-gives-keynote-speech-at-ebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/news\/wirz-gives-keynote-speech-at-ebu","title":{"rendered":"Wirz gives keynote speech at EBU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/files\/2015\/03\/wirz.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-697\" title=\"president wirz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/files\/2015\/03\/wirz.jpg\" alt=\"president wirz\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wirz.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wirz-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>European Athletics President Hansj\u00f6rg Wirz gave a keynote speech about the state of our sport entitled \u2018Where is Athletics today\u2019 at the Eurovision Sports Assembly\u00a0 in Geneva.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Wirz looked to the future in what is his final few weeks at the helm of European Athletics, and said it is a necessity to link the format of future European Athletics Championships to a comprehensive qualification system for the championships and including the one-day meetings structure within this system.<\/p>\n<p>While at the EBU headquarters, President Wirz met with EBU Director General Ingrid Deltenre following the renewal of European Athletics\u2019 worldwide media rights contract with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The long-running partnership, which has been in place since 1981, has been extended for the period 2016-2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Athletics President Hansj\u00f6rg Wirz gave a keynote speech about the state of our sport entitled \u2018Where is Athletics today\u2019 at the Eurovision Sports Assembly\u00a0 in Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,21],"tags":[20,172],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-ch","tag-european-athletics","tag-hansjorg-wirz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}