Backbone.js fetch not actually setting attributes

Question

I have a basic backbone model, its urlRoot attribute is set and the corresponding target on the server side returns a correct JSON output (both JSON string and

Answer 1

Just as a quick remark when using events in this example. It did not work with change in my case because this events fire on every change. So sync does the trick.

var athlete = new Athlete({id: 1});
athlete.on("sync", function (model) {
   console.log(model.get('name'));
});
athlete.fetch();