{"id":67691,"date":"2012-08-05T07:54:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67691"},"modified":"2012-08-05T07:54:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T14:54:49","slug":"cycling-us-firefighter-becomes-surprising-sprint-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67691","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; US firefighter becomes surprising sprint star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No wonder Jimmy Watkins is a fast sprinter. He&#8217;s used to running up slopes with a hose to extinguish fires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The powerfully built Watkins, a 29-year-old firefighter from Bakersfield, Calif., can already be proud of his achievements at the Olympic Velodrome. On Sunday, he will compete in the quarterfinals of the sprint tournament, track cycling&#8217;s blue-ribbon event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not bad for a guy who doesn&#8217;t have a specific training program and lives 124 miles (200 kilometers) away from the closest velodrome. He keeps a bike next to his fire engine so he can train\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/us-firefighter-becomes-surprising-sprint-044507238--oly.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>No wonder Jimmy Watkins is a fast sprinter. He&#8217;s used to running up slopes with a hose to extinguish fires. The powerfully built Watkins, a 29-year-old firefighter from Bakersfield, Calif., can already be proud of his achievements at the Olympic Velodrome. On Sunday, he will compete in the quarterfinals of the sprint tournament, track cycling&#8217;s [&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-67691","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\/67691","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=67691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67692,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67691\/revisions\/67692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}