{"id":2940,"date":"2009-03-08T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T00:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2009-03-08T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T00:42:06","slug":"ice-skating-americans-set-world-records-in-1000-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"Ice Skating &#8211; Americans set world records in 1,000 meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2941\" title=\"davis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/davis.bmp\" alt=\"davis\" \/>Speedskater Trevor Marsicano had never skated especially fast in the 1,000 meters, by international racing standards. His best time ranked only modestly inside the top 100 of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>So when the 19-year-old who switched from short-track only two years ago tore more than two full seconds off his previous best and broke the world record in 1:06.88 at the World Cup finale at the Utah Olympic Oval on Saturday, just about everybody was stunned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what to think,&#8221; teammate Shani Davis said. &#8220;I was scared. I was like, &#8216;Oh, my gosh,&#8217; because he didn&#8217;t skate 1:07, ever. He went straight to 1:06.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But even Marsicano knew his record might not last long&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/jazz\/ci_11861001\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speedskater Trevor Marsicano had never skated especially fast in the 1,000 meters, by international racing standards. His best time ranked only modestly inside the top 100 of all-time. So when the 19-year-old who switched from short-track only two years ago tore more than two full seconds off his previous best and broke the world record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skate-roller-inline-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}