{"id":67698,"date":"2012-08-05T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T15:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67698"},"modified":"2012-08-05T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T15:01:34","slug":"bmx-racing-hear-from-the-us-olympic-bmx-cycling-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67698","title":{"rendered":"BMX Racing &#8211; Hear from the U.S. Olympic BMX Cycling Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alise Post &#8211; St. Cloud, Minnesota<\/span><br \/>\nI didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t start dedicating myself to BMX full time until I was 18. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made exponential improvements since moving out to San Diego. One, I think getting to ride all year was a huge jump in results. Number two, just focusing on one thing eliminates a lot of distractions and you are able to put all of your energy into one thing.<br \/>\nWhen I got injured last year I felt like I had been doing really well and like I was kind of blowing it at the last minute. Olympic points were starting and I was just wondering how I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to make up this points difference. The Olympics were a year out and they are telling me I have an eight month recovery time. After I got through surgery and got on the recovery trail, I decided I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to let it beat me. I was going to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usacycling.org\/news\/user\/story.php?id=7848\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>Alise Post &#8211; St. Cloud, Minnesota I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t start dedicating myself to BMX full time until I was 18. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made exponential improvements since moving out to San Diego. One, I think getting to ride all year was a huge jump in results. Number two, just focusing on one thing eliminates a lot of distractions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67698","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=67698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67699,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67698\/revisions\/67699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}