{"id":6761,"date":"2009-03-31T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2009-03-31T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:08:59","slug":"kiteboard-alex-caizergues-and-melissa-gil-lead-the-2009-kitespeed-world-championship-after-port-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6761","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard &#8211; Alex Caizergues and Melissa Gil lead the 2009 Kitespeed World Championship after Port St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6762\" title=\"kite2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/kite2.bmp\" alt=\"kite2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After two rounds of racing yesterday, Alex Caizergues (FRA, F-One) and Melissa Gil (USA, Cabrinha) have taken the lead in this years speed world championship, held in Port St. Louis, France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In total, 35 competitors registered for the first event of the season, and although the weather forecast is not brilliant for the upcoming days, there is hope for the weekend to bring more wind to allow for more racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first heat of the competition was won by Rob Douglas (USA, Cabrinha), the first kiter that broke the speedsailing dominance of the windsurfers last year in Luderitz, and one of the three kiteboarders that made it over 50 knots. Heat two was then won by &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/kiteboarding\/1128-alex-caizergues-and-melissa-gil-lead-the-2009-kitespeed-world-championship-after-port-st-louis\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div><script src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3701059?target=_top&amp;mouseover=N\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 After two rounds of racing yesterday, Alex Caizergues (FRA, F-One) and Melissa Gil (USA, Cabrinha) have taken the lead in this years speed world championship, held in Port St. Louis, France. In total, 35 competitors registered for the first event of the season, and although the weather forecast is not brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","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=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}