{"id":11903,"date":"2009-05-11T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2009-05-11T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:10:09","slug":"cycling-road-mt-bike-bmx-cyclocross-is-it-the-athlete-or-the-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11903","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road Mt. Bike BMX Cyclocross &#8211; Is It the Athlete or the Equipment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cycling Union recently alerted professional teams that it intends to crack down on new technology in bicycle designs and accessories that might give an unfair advantage to teams with access to the latest breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Similar debates are perennially going on in golf, tennis and swimming because advances in equipment design can significantly affect how well athletes perform. Athletes don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have equal access to the best training facilities and coaches. Why should a line be drawn denying them access to the latest technology?<\/p>\n<p>Scot Nicol, founder of Ibis Cycles<\/p>\n<p>Gary Hall Jr., three-time Olympian<\/p>\n<p>Frank Thomas, former U.S. Golf Association official<\/p>\n<p>Martina Navratilova, former tennis champion<\/p>\n<p>Craig Lord, SwimNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Eric Hjertberg, bicycle component technologist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/08\/is-it-the-athlete-or-the-equipment\/?ref=sports\" target=\"_blank\">Very good article continued here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cycling Union recently alerted professional teams that it intends to crack down on new technology in bicycle designs and accessories that might give an unfair advantage to teams with access to the latest breakthroughs. Similar debates are perennially going on in golf, tennis and swimming because advances in equipment design can significantly affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,38,39,40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-cyclocross","category-mt-bike","category-new-bike-products-testing","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903","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=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11907,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions\/11907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}