{"id":1040007345,"date":"2025-09-06T00:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/?p=1040007345"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:20:01","slug":"watch-jonathan-edwards-king-of-the-triple-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/news\/videos\/watch-jonathan-edwards-king-of-the-triple-jump-1040007345\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Jonathan Edwards, king of the triple jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We chat to the British athletics legend on the 30th anniversary of his triple jump world record and ahead of the 25th anniversary of his Olympic victory in Sydney<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old talks about his remarkable rise in the triple jump and why he finds cycling and golf more appealing than track and field these days.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Jonathan Edwards takes a hop, step and jump down memory lane\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0KOwZGXLZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We chat to the British athletics legend on the 30th anniversary of his triple jump world record and ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1039977575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_championship":0,"wds_primary_country":0,"wds_primary_sports":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"championship":[],"country":[],"sports":[36011],"class_list":["post-1040007345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","sports-triple-jump"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040007345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040007345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040007345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039977575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040007345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040007345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040007345"},{"taxonomy":"championship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/championship?post=1040007345"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=1040007345"},{"taxonomy":"sports","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sports?post=1040007345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}