{"id":128520,"date":"2017-02-17T19:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=128520"},"modified":"2017-02-17T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:27:17","slug":"snow-skiing-the-cost-of-competing-on-the-freeride-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=128520","title":{"rendered":"Snow Skiing &#8211; The Cost of Competing on the Freeride World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Skiers spend thousands of dollars to compete\u2014and there&#8217;s no guarantee the investment will pay off<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>Drew Tabke secured the men\u2019s win in Vallnord-Arcalis when the Freeride World Tour kicked off the season early this month, while Italian Arianna Tricomi came out on top of the female line up in a freeride-oriented style not usually seen in the women\u2019s competition. Spirits were high, the sun was shining, and a fresh coat of snow blanketed the venue. There were big airs, tricks, crashes, smiles, and fist pumps\u2014all of the classic components of a FWT event.<\/p>\n<p>What wasn\u2019t seen on the live feed, however, was the financial cost to the skiers standing in the iconic Swatch-face start gate\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powder.com\/stories\/news\/the-cost-of-competing-on-the-freeride-world-tour\/#X2d2L93lGRmPaWHS.97\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skiers spend thousands of dollars to compete\u2014and there&#8217;s no guarantee the investment will pay off Drew Tabke secured the men\u2019s win in Vallnord-Arcalis when the Freeride World Tour kicked off the season early this month, while Italian Arianna Tricomi came out on top of the female line up in a freeride-oriented style not usually seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128520","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=128520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128521,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128520\/revisions\/128521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}