{"id":159623,"date":"2020-12-08T20:59:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159623"},"modified":"2020-12-08T20:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:59:26","slug":"surfing-and-skateboarding-have-officially-been-confirmed-in-the-paris-2024-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159623","title":{"rendered":"Surfing and skateboarding have officially been confirmed in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board confirmed both sports in the official program.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in its long history, the Olympic games will feature 50 percent male athletes and 50 percent female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, 22 men and 22 women will compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Paris 2024 shortboard surfing event.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/surfing-and-skateboarding-confirmed-in-paris-2024?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surf+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board confirmed both sports in the official program. For the first time in its long history, the Olympic games will feature 50 percent male athletes and 50 percent female athletes. As a result, 22 men and 22 women will compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Paris [&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-159623","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\/159623","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=159623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159624,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159623\/revisions\/159624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}