{"id":68469,"date":"2012-08-10T13:07:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68469"},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:07:57","slug":"bmx-racing-tears-turn-to-joy-as-maris-strombergs-wins-olympic-gold-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68469","title":{"rendered":"BMX Racing &#8211; Tears turn to joy as Maris Strombergs wins Olympic Gold again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Latvia&#8217;s Maris Strombergs, a man who cried when he first saw a BMX race, remained the only men&#8217;s Olympic champion in the discipline when he retained his title at the London Games on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Strombergs, who had failed to impress in the quarter and semi-finals, found his form to lead from the first bend to the finish line to beat Australian world champion and pre-race favorite Sam Willoughby\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/cycling-tears-turn-joy-strombergs-wins-bmx-again-182101984--spt.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>Latvia&#8217;s Maris Strombergs, a man who cried when he first saw a BMX race, remained the only men&#8217;s Olympic champion in the discipline when he retained his title at the London Games on Friday. Strombergs, who had failed to impress in the quarter and semi-finals, found his form to lead from the first bend to [&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-68469","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\/68469","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=68469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68470,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68469\/revisions\/68470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}