{"id":503286,"date":"2026-05-24T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=503286"},"modified":"2026-05-25T02:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:26:50","slug":"chinas-yan-ziyi-just-turned-18-the-very-next-day-she-threw-a-71-74m-javelin-to-become-the-second-best-female-thrower-of-all-time-before-this-milestone-arbitrary-age-limits-kept-one-of-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=503286","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Yan Ziyi just turned 18. The very next day, she threw a 71.74m javelin to become the second-best female thrower of all time. Before this milestone, arbitrary age limits kept one of the planet&#8217;s most dominant athletes completely locked out of the Olympics and World Championships."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1tmfrls\/chinas_yan_ziyi_just_turned_18_the_very_next_day\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/MjAzZXFpczd3MzNoMTSz8pK7VMA2Hx8olYA1GrrPbM_1SuGNfsl-UMguOyjv.png?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=ae80fb7c192fbe2c0f2b458815d8cc41cd239645\" alt=\"China&#039;s Yan Ziyi just turned 18. The very next day, she threw a 71.74m javelin to become the second-best female thrower of all time. Before this milestone, arbitrary age limits kept one of the planet&#039;s most dominant athletes completely locked out of the Olympics and World Championships.\" title=\"China&#039;s Yan Ziyi just turned 18. The very next day, she threw a 71.74m javelin to become the second-best female thrower of all time. Before this milestone, arbitrary age limits kept one of the planet&#039;s most dominant athletes completely locked out of the Olympics and World Championships.\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Frosty_Jeweler911\"> \/u\/Frosty_Jeweler911 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/v.redd.it\/vyn7i7s7w33h1\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1tmfrls\/chinas_yan_ziyi_just_turned_18_the_very_next_day\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#032; submitted by &#032; \/u\/Frosty_Jeweler911 [link] &#032; [comments]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503289,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503286\/revisions\/503289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/503288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}