{"id":157528,"date":"2024-08-01T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=157528"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:50:29","slug":"uccs-alum-assistant-coach-to-compete-for-palestine-in-2024-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=157528","title":{"rendered":"UCCS alum, assistant coach to compete for Palestine in 2024 Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

University of Colorado Colorado Springs cross country and track & field alumni Layla Almasri is set to compete for her native country of Palestine in the women’s 800m dash at the 2024 Paris Olympics this week.
\u00a0
A former standout performer for the UCCS women’s cross country and track & field programs and current assistant coach with the Mountain Lion women’s cross country team, Almasri will open her Olympic career on Friday, Aug. 2 in Round 1 of the women’s 800m at 11:45 a.m. (MT) inside Stade de France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qualifiers from Round 1 will advance directly to the Semi-Final Round on Sunday, Aug. 4 at 12:35 p.m. (MT), while non-qualifiers will have another chance to advance on Saturday, Aug. 3 at 3:20 a.m. (MT) in the Repechage Round. The Final Round of the women’s 800m will take place on Monday, Aug. 5 at 1:47 p.m. (MT).
\u00a0
All rounds of the women’s 800m competition will be available for digital streaming on Peacock and NBCOlympics.com. Live Results for each round can be found at the below links.
\u00a0
Women’s 800m Schedule<\/strong>
Round 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday, Aug. 2 \u2013 11:45 a.m. (MT) \/ 7:45 p.m. (CEST) |\u00a0Live Results<\/a>
Repechage Round:<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday, Aug. 3 \u2013 3:20 a.m. (MT) \/ 11:20 a.m. (CEST) |\u00a0Live Results<\/a>
Semi-Final Round:<\/strong>\u00a0Sunday, Aug. 4 \u2013 12:35 p.m. (MT) \/ 8:35 p.m. (CEST) |\u00a0Live Results<\/a>
Final Round:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, Aug. 5 \u2013 1:47 p.m. (MT) \/ 9:47 p.m. (CEST) |\u00a0Live Results<\/a>
\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross country and track & field alumni Layla Almasri is set to compete for her native country of Palestine in the women’s 800m dash at the 2024 Paris Olympics this week. (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":157531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,427],"tags":[93,51,60],"class_list":["post-157528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-alumni-stories","tag-athletics","tag-featured","tag-student-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Almasri.webp","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-EYM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157532,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157528\/revisions\/157532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}