{"id":121139,"date":"2016-08-03T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T22:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121139"},"modified":"2016-08-03T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T22:55:03","slug":"surfing-and-skateboarding-officially-added-to-2020-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121139","title":{"rendered":"Surfing and skateboarding officially added to 2020 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee voted to officially add surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The vote occurred during the 129th session of the International Olympic Committee Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro and was broadcast via a live webcast on the International Olympic Committee\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>With organizers for Tokyo 2020 making constant references to having the 2020 games be the \u201cmost innovative games in history\u201d and to bringing in a younger audience, IOC officials voted unanimously to \u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/culture\/surfing-skateboarding-officially-added-2020-olympics\/#3c1u5me86e2bwjH3.97\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee voted to officially add surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The vote occurred during the 129th session of the International Olympic Committee Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro and was broadcast via a live webcast on the International Olympic Committee\u2019s website. With organizers for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121139","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=121139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121140,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121139\/revisions\/121140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}