{"id":16965,"date":"2009-07-20T20:31:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T03:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16965"},"modified":"2009-07-20T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T03:31:01","slug":"action-sports-misc-the-highest-paid-action-sports-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16965","title":{"rendered":"Action Sports Misc &#8211; The Highest-Paid Action Sports Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As reported on www.forbes.com by Kurt Badenhausen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Snowboarder Shaun White was down to his last chance after falling during his first two runs of the men&#8217;s half-pipe competition at last month&#8217;s Winter X Games. It was the culminating event in the four day contest that drew 68,000 fans to Aspen, Colo. Once again, White delivered. He ripped off a stellar final run that included back-to-back 1080s (three complete rotations in the air) to win the gold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">White&#8217;s payday for winning one of his sport&#8217;s biggest competitions: a paltry $30,000. By comparison, Geoff Ogilvy earned $1.1 million for winning golf&#8217;s 2009 opening event, the Mercedes-Benz Championship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But the snowboarding and skateboarding phenom crowned the Flying Tomato will get his money. We estimate that White earned &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/1936\/The+Highest-Paid+Action+Sports+Stars\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported on www.forbes.com by Kurt Badenhausen Snowboarder Shaun White was down to his last chance after falling during his first two runs of the men&#8217;s half-pipe competition at last month&#8217;s Winter X Games. It was the culminating event in the four day contest that drew 68,000 fans to Aspen, Colo. Once again, White delivered. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965","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=16965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16966,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions\/16966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}