{"id":16853,"date":"2009-07-20T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16853"},"modified":"2009-07-20T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:06:06","slug":"cycling-bmx-the-%e2%80%98bike-god-of-asia%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16853","title":{"rendered":"Cycling BMX &#8211; The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBike God of Asia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BMX champion Liao Wu-hsiung began his love affair with extreme bicycling at the tender age of 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never looked back<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Liao Wu-hsiung (\u00e5\u00bb\u2013\u00e6\u00ad\u00a6\u00e9\u203a\u201e) won his first national bicycle motocross, or BMX, competition in 1983 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when he was in fifth grade. He went on to successfully defend the title twice until, at age 15, he broke his leg in a car accident. A year later he was back in top form and won the national BMX championship three more times. Since 1996 he has been training young athletes and his students regularly garner victories at extreme sports races both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Liao recalls his start in extreme bicycling: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153BMX came to Taiwan at the beginning of 1980. I got on my first bike in December of that year&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/feat\/archives\/2009\/07\/18\/2003448960\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMX champion Liao Wu-hsiung began his love affair with extreme bicycling at the tender age of 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never looked back Liao Wu-hsiung (\u00e5\u00bb\u2013\u00e6\u00ad\u00a6\u00e9\u203a\u201e) won his first national bicycle motocross, or BMX, competition in 1983 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when he was in fifth grade. He went on to successfully defend the title twice until, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16853","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\/16853","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=16853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16854,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853\/revisions\/16854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}