{"id":39888,"date":"2010-11-06T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T14:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=39888"},"modified":"2010-11-06T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T14:20:37","slug":"cycling-hoy-suffers-shock-track-defeat-by-tenacious-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=39888","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Hoy suffers shock track defeat by tenacious teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Quadruple Olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy suffered what he called a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stupid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d defeat at the European track championships on Saturday after blowing a huge lead against a teenager with the slowest qualifying time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hoy was comfortably ahead in the first round of the individual sprint only for 18-year-old Irishman Felix English to take him and everyone watching by surprise with a late surge to the line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hoy denied making a tactical error while Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sprint coach Iain Dyer said\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-europeanhoy\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quadruple Olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy suffered what he called a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stupid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d defeat at the European track championships on Saturday after blowing a huge lead against a teenager with the slowest qualifying time. Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hoy was comfortably ahead in the first round of the individual sprint only for 18-year-old Irishman Felix English to take him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39888","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=39888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39889,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39888\/revisions\/39889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}