{"id":76618,"date":"2013-03-16T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76618"},"modified":"2013-03-16T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T15:36:13","slug":"sailing-salt-and-speed-kitesurfers-in-great-shape-for-record-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76618","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; &#8220;Salt and Speed&#8221; &#8211; Kitesurfers in great shape for record attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the strong winds (Force 9) of the past two days, kitesurfers Alexandre Caizergues and Rob Douglas have linked together a number of runs at over fifty knots on the 500m &#8216;Volkswagen Transporter Arena&#8217; course in France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Salin-de-Giraud. The best performance so far this year has gone to the Frenchman with a speed of 54.84 knots (101.56 km\/hr), whilst the American World Kitesurfing record holder reached 54.35 knots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They have yet to improve on Rob Douglas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 record of 55.65 knots, but in the space of two days\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=107537&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0&amp;rid=4\" 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>In the strong winds (Force 9) of the past two days, kitesurfers Alexandre Caizergues and Rob Douglas have linked together a number of runs at over fifty knots on the 500m &#8216;Volkswagen Transporter Arena&#8217; course in France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Salin-de-Giraud. The best performance so far this year has gone to the Frenchman with a speed of 54.84 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76618","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=76618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76619,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76618\/revisions\/76619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}