{"id":69570,"date":"2012-09-05T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69570"},"modified":"2012-09-05T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T03:10:46","slug":"former-indycar-and-f1-star-alex-zanardi-wons-gold-in-the-2012-paralympic-handcycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69570","title":{"rendered":"Former IndyCar and F1 star Alex Zanardi wons gold in the 2012 Paralympic handcycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Former IndyCar and Formula 1 star Alex Zanardi won gold in the 2012 Paralympic handcycling race around Brands Hatch circuit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 45-year-old was competing 11 years after losing his legs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one at the knee and one above \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in a horrific Champ Car crash at the Lausitzring. He previously won silver in the 2011 World Road Para-Cycling Championships, his first medal since moving into the sport following his race-winning spell in the World Touring Car Championship with BMW\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/zanardi-wins-paralympic-gold-medal\/article\/257556\/\" 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>Former IndyCar and Formula 1 star Alex Zanardi won gold in the 2012 Paralympic handcycling race around Brands Hatch circuit on Wednesday. The 45-year-old was competing 11 years after losing his legs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one at the knee and one above \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in a horrific Champ Car crash at the Lausitzring. He previously won silver in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,21,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-cycling","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69570","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=69570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69571,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69570\/revisions\/69571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}