{"id":15185,"date":"2009-06-26T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2009-06-26T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T21:36:43","slug":"cycling-mt-bike-ten-treasures-mountain-bike-champ-missy-giove-will-never-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15185","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Mt. Bike &#8211; Ten Treasures Mountain Bike Champ Missy Giove Will Never Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Missile\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is in big trouble, but here are ten things Giove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alleged crime could never overshadow:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Her trophy case. Before retiring from competition, this gal won more NORBA races than anyone (she notched 14 golds) and was second on the World Cup list for wins (11). She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the proud owner of two World Cup Overall titles and the 1994 World Championship downhill title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She wore a dried pirhana around her neck when she raced. It was her dead pet, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gonzo.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She is openly gay, which in the world of sports, is very brave and cool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In 2004, Giove appeared in the cartoon, Rocket Power. The episode was named, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Missile Crisis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">5.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She rode and raced with the ashes of &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theskichannel.com\/news\/gear\/20090623\/Ten-Treasures-Mountain-Bike-Champ-Missy-Giove-Will-Never-Lose\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Missile\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is in big trouble, but here are ten things Giove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alleged crime could never overshadow: 1.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Her trophy case. Before retiring from competition, this gal won more NORBA races than anyone (she notched 14 golds) and was second on the World Cup list for wins (11). She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the proud owner of two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185","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=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15186,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions\/15186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}