{"id":70744,"date":"2012-10-07T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70744"},"modified":"2012-10-07T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:09:19","slug":"ski-racing-skier-lindsey-vonn-makes-pitch-to-enter-mens-dh-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70744","title":{"rendered":"Ski Racing &#8211; Skier Lindsey Vonn makes pitch to enter men&#8217;s DH in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn has launched an audacious and ground-breaking bid to compete against male opponents at a World Cup event on November 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2010 downhill gold medalist in the Vancouver Games believes that squaring off against the best men&#8217;s skiers in the world will boost the image of the women&#8217;s tour, which she dominated again this past season to cement her place as world No.1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vonn has sent a letter seeking special dispensation to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/skier-lindsey-vonn-makes-pitch-to-enter-men-s-skiing-event-in-canada.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>Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn has launched an audacious and ground-breaking bid to compete against male opponents at a World Cup event on November 21. The 2010 downhill gold medalist in the Vancouver Games believes that squaring off against the best men&#8217;s skiers in the world will boost the image of the women&#8217;s tour, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70744","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=70744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70747,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70744\/revisions\/70747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}