{"id":22716,"date":"2009-11-05T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22716"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:52:18","slug":"cycling-downhill-mt-bike-video-downhill-bike-race-in-brazil-slum-red-bull-desafio-no-morro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22716","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Downhill Mt. Bike Video &#8211; Downhill bike race in Brazil slum- Red Bull Desafio no Morro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling Downhill Mt. Bike Video &#8211; Downhill bike race in Brazil slum- Red Bull Desafio no Morro &#8211; Slovakia&#8217;s Filip Polc took top honors in the Red Bull Desafio no Morro, an unprecedented mountain bike downhill competition inside a &#8216; favela&#8217; (slum) in Rio de Janeiro.Polc&#8217;s best time of 1:39.91 down the 760 meters of the favela&#8217;s alleys and staircases was enough to edge Brazilian Markolf Berchtold by over 1.5s. Britain&#8217;s Dan Atherton completed the podium with a top mark of 1:42.29.Dan&#8217;s brother Gee Atherton entered the competition in Brazil as the clear favorite, and confirmed those expectations by topping the qualifying session on Saturday. Race day didn&#8217;t equal lucky day for Gee, however, who ended up last among the 10 riders competing after suffering a flat rear tire halfway through the course.http:\/\/redbull.com<br \/>\n<object width=\"498\" height=\"336\" data=\"http:\/\/static.grindtv.com\/1.2.1796\/swf\/video.swf?sa=1&amp;si=1&amp;i=44555&amp;sct=bike\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.grindtv.com\/1.2.1796\/swf\/video.swf?sa=1&amp;si=1&amp;i=44555&amp;sct=bike\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Legendary mountain biker brothers Dan and Gee Atherton go for a ride through Dona Marta slum in Brazil. The course was designed and built for the unprecedented Red Bull Desafio no Morro race.http:\/\/redbull.com<br \/>\n<object width=\"498\" height=\"336\" data=\"http:\/\/static.grindtv.com\/1.2.1796\/swf\/video.swf?sa=1&amp;si=1&amp;i=44556&amp;sct=bike\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.grindtv.com\/1.2.1796\/swf\/video.swf?sa=1&amp;si=1&amp;i=44556&amp;sct=bike\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling Downhill Mt. Bike Video &#8211; Downhill bike race in Brazil slum- Red Bull Desafio no Morro &#8211; Slovakia&#8217;s Filip Polc took top honors in the Red Bull Desafio no Morro, an unprecedented mountain bike downhill competition inside a &#8216; favela&#8217; (slum) in Rio de Janeiro.Polc&#8217;s best time of 1:39.91 down the 760 meters of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22716","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=22716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22717,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22716\/revisions\/22717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}