{"id":3198,"date":"2009-03-10T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:17:47","slug":"skiing-lindsey-vonn-closing-in-on-another-overall-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"Skiing &#8211; Lindsey Vonn closing in on another overall title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Vonn gets her chance Wednesday to become the first American woman to capture two World Cup overall titles.<\/p>\n<p>She enters the downhill in this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s season finals leading Maria Riesch by 369 points with four races left and 400 points at stake. She needs to finish sixth or better\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor ahead of the German\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto capture her second straight overall crown.<\/p>\n<p>Tamara McKinney was the only previous U.S. woman to take the overall, in 1983. Vonn has surpassed McKinney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Cup victory total and now holds the women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s U.S. record with 20&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ski\/news?slug=ap-worldcupfinals&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Vonn gets her chance Wednesday to become the first American woman to capture two World Cup overall titles. She enters the downhill in this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s season finals leading Maria Riesch by 369 points with four races left and 400 points at stake. She needs to finish sixth or better\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor ahead of the German\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto capture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}