{"id":20169,"date":"2009-09-06T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20169"},"modified":"2009-09-06T13:44:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T20:44:48","slug":"cycling-mt-bike-peat-and-ragot-win-first-mountainbike-world-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20169","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Mt. Bike &#8211; Peat and Ragot win first mountainbike world titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Steve Peat ended a decade of frustrating near-misses by winning the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s downhill title on the final day at the world mountainbike championships in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 35-year-old, who had finished runner-up four times since 2000, snatched the gold by 0.05 seconds from South African Greg Minnaar in front of an estimated crowd of 40,000.<\/p>\n<p><!-- article-left_skinny --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was pretty emotional putting the jersey on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-mountainbike&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Steve Peat ended a decade of frustrating near-misses by winning the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s downhill title on the final day at the world mountainbike championships in Canberra. The 35-year-old, who had finished runner-up four times since 2000, snatched the gold by 0.05 seconds from South African Greg Minnaar in front of an estimated crowd of 40,000. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20169","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\/20169","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=20169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20181,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions\/20181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}