{"id":68344,"date":"2012-08-08T06:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68344"},"modified":"2012-08-08T06:47:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:47:04","slug":"bmx-racing-a-broken-chain-and-shattered-olympic-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68344","title":{"rendered":"BMX Racing &#8211; A broken chain and shattered Olympic dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h408825-p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\">LONDON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 1460.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h408825-p4\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The number is painted in white on the blue tube of Arielle Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BMX bike designed specially for the London Olympics, just below the handle bars, where she can look down and see it and remind herself of her journey. The significance? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Roughly the number of days I had to wait,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Martin wrote on her website two weeks ago, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153from the last gate drop in Beijing to the first in London.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p id=\"h408825-p5\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Martin won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to ride it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h408825-p6\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The BMX competition opens Wednesday in London. She isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t here.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h408825-p7\" style=\"text-align: left;\">She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back in San Diego, at Scripps Mercy hospital, recovering\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/aug\/07\/broken-chain-and-shattered-olympic-dreams\/\" 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>LONDON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 1460. The number is painted in white on the blue tube of Arielle Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BMX bike designed specially for the London Olympics, just below the handle bars, where she can look down and see it and remind herself of her journey. The significance? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Roughly the number of days I had to wait,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Martin [&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-68344","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\/68344","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=68344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68346,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68344\/revisions\/68346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}