{"id":12238,"date":"2009-05-13T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T21:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12238"},"modified":"2009-05-13T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T21:30:22","slug":"cycling-bmx-change-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12238","title":{"rendered":"Cycling BMX &#8211; Change is in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12239\" title=\"china-bmx\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/china-bmx.jpg\" alt=\"china-bmx\" width=\"400\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/china-bmx.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/china-bmx-131x150.jpg 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>In his green Mao cap and wraparound shades, Sheng Jian reflected both China&#8217;s political past and its hip sporting future as he watched this month&#8217;s X Games Asia with one foot in a bandage and an eye on the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;These guys are so good I don&#8217;t know if I would have made the final even with both feet,&#8221; said the injured BMX freestyle rider.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 22-year-old, one of China&#8217;s top BMX &#8220;park&#8221; specialists, broke his right ankle practicing tricks such as bar-spins over the box before Asia&#8217;s premier action sports fest got under way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Showing true grit, he asked a local doctor to patch him up so he could compete later that afternoon. The doctor told him he was out of his mind&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"In his green Mao cap and wraparound shades, Sheng Jian reflected both China's political past and its hip sporting future as he watched this month's X Games Asia with one foot in a bandage and an eye on the Olympics.\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his green Mao cap and wraparound shades, Sheng Jian reflected both China&#8217;s political past and its hip sporting future as he watched this month&#8217;s X Games Asia with one foot in a bandage and an eye on the Olympics. &#8220;These guys are so good I don&#8217;t know if I would have made the final [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238","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=12238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12241,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions\/12241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}