{"id":6021,"date":"2009-03-26T10:54:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6021"},"modified":"2009-03-26T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T23:12:02","slug":"sailing-ericsson-3-finish-first-in-rio-de-janeiro-on-leg-5-of-volvo-ocean-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6021","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Ericsson 3 finish first in Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of Volvo Ocean Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ericsson 3, skippered by Magnus Olsson (SWE) finished first into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 10:37:57 GMT 26\/03\/09, after 41 days at sea.<\/p>\n<p>At 12,300 nm it is the longest leg in the 36-year history of the event and the first time that 60-year old Olsson, the oldest competitor in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race, has taken part as skipper, having competed five times previously as a crew member. His young navigator, Norway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Aksel Magdahl (30), is half the age of Olsson and is competing in this competition for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Olsson and his crew stepped ashore in the Marina da Gloria to a euphoric and emotional welcome after &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=55171&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3691695?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson 3, skippered by Magnus Olsson (SWE) finished first into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 10:37:57 GMT 26\/03\/09, after 41 days at sea. At 12,300 nm it is the longest leg in the 36-year history of the event and the first time that 60-year old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021","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=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}