{"id":68303,"date":"2012-08-07T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68303"},"modified":"2012-08-07T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:58:06","slug":"windsurfing-london-olympics-2012%e2%80%94van-rijsselberge-ned-wins-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68303","title":{"rendered":"Windsurfing &#8211; London Olympics 2012\u00e2\u20ac\u201dVan Rijsselberge (NED) wins Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The water was flat but the action was hot on the Nothe course today as the Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s RS:X class took to the starting line for their final Olympic performance. As earlier reported, Dorian Van Rijsselberge (NED) had already secured Gold prior to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s medal race, but there was plenty of tussling and tactical tugging for Silver and Bronze amongst the &#8216;plank&#8217; sailors (lighthearted slang for windsurfers, given their high-speed boards). Ultimately, Team Great Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nick Dempsey racked up an impressive (and somewhat unexpected) Silver, while Poland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Przemyslaw Miarczynski rouded-out the podium positions with a well-earned Bronze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The south-southwesterly breeze provided perfect windsurfing conditions and\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=100733&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" 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>The water was flat but the action was hot on the Nothe course today as the Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s RS:X class took to the starting line for their final Olympic performance. As earlier reported, Dorian Van Rijsselberge (NED) had already secured Gold prior to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s medal race, but there was plenty of tussling and tactical tugging for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68303","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=68303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68304,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68303\/revisions\/68304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}