{"id":100624,"date":"2014-11-19T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T04:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=100624"},"modified":"2014-11-19T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T04:21:45","slug":"world-cup-skiing-to-try-air-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=100624","title":{"rendered":"World Cup skiing to try air bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ROME &#8212; Perhaps if Lindsey Vonn had a big cushy air bag to fall on when she tore two ligaments in her right knee she wouldn&#8217;t have missed the Sochi Olympics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And maybe Aksel Lund Svindal wouldn&#8217;t have broken bones in his face and suffered a laceration to his groin and abdominal area after failing to land a massive jump in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, it&#8217;s nearly impossible to calculate what effect &#8212; if any &#8212; an air bag would have had in those crashes.<\/p>\n<p>An air bag system intended for speed races, such as downhill, will debut at the women&#8217;s downhill Jan. 10.<\/p>\n<p>But with a radical air bag system being approved for use in World Cup and lower level races beginning in January, Alpine skiing could get a lot safer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History is what drives\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/olympics\/skiing\/story\/_\/id\/11898033\/air-bag-system-cleared-use-world-cup-ski-races-beginning-january\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wwws.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME &#8212; Perhaps if Lindsey Vonn had a big cushy air bag to fall on when she tore two ligaments in her right knee she wouldn&#8217;t have missed the Sochi Olympics. And maybe Aksel Lund Svindal wouldn&#8217;t have broken bones in his face and suffered a laceration to his groin and abdominal area after failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-snow-products-tests","category-skiing","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100625,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100624\/revisions\/100625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}