{"id":140584,"date":"2018-03-08T21:44:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=140584"},"modified":"2018-03-08T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:44:32","slug":"bmx-icon-mat-hoffman-slams-ucis-power-grab-of-the-sport-in-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=140584","title":{"rendered":"BMX icon Mat Hoffman slams UCI\u2019s power grab of the sport in open letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMX Hall of Fame legend Mat Hoffman has penned an open letter heavily criticising the UCI this week, going as far to encourage athletes and event organisers to turn their back on cycling\u2019s governing body as it begins to formulate an event calendar.<\/p>\n<p>A long-term representative of the sport and president of the IBMXFF (International BMX Freestyle Federation), Hoffman details a 15-year back and forth with UCI Presidents past and present, accusing the world governing body of deliberately moving to push those with the sport\u2019s best interests at heart to the side. This includes\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingindustry.news\/bmx-icon-mat-hoffman-slams-ucis-power-grab-of-the-sport-in-open-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMX Hall of Fame legend Mat Hoffman has penned an open letter heavily criticising the UCI this week, going as far to encourage athletes and event organisers to turn their back on cycling\u2019s governing body as it begins to formulate an event calendar. A long-term representative of the sport and president of the IBMXFF (International [&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-140584","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\/140584","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=140584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140585,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140584\/revisions\/140585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}