{"id":71801,"date":"2012-11-03T17:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T00:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71801"},"modified":"2012-11-03T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T00:50:28","slug":"snow-skiing-fis-rejects-vonns-request-to-race-against-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71801","title":{"rendered":"Snow Skiing &#8211; FIS rejects Vonn&#8217;s request to race against men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lindsey Vonn&#8217;s request to compete in a men&#8217;s World Cup downhill race has been rejected by the International Ski Federation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The FIS council met Saturday in Oberhofen, Switzerland, and &#8221;confirmed that one gender is not entitled to participate in races of the other,&#8221; adding in a statement that &#8221;exceptions will not be made to the FIS Rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vonn, a four-time overall World Cup champion, wanted to enter the men&#8217;s downhill on Nov. 24 at Lake Louise, Alberta, six days before the women race on the same course\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/fis-rejects-vonns-request-race-200158470--ski.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>Lindsey Vonn&#8217;s request to compete in a men&#8217;s World Cup downhill race has been rejected by the International Ski Federation. The FIS council met Saturday in Oberhofen, Switzerland, and &#8221;confirmed that one gender is not entitled to participate in races of the other,&#8221; adding in a statement that &#8221;exceptions will not be made to the [&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-71801","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\/71801","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=71801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71802,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71801\/revisions\/71802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}