{"id":90287,"date":"2014-02-08T12:11:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90287"},"modified":"2014-02-08T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:11:57","slug":"video-american-snowboarder-sage-kotsenburg-wins-first-sochi-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90287","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; American snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg wins first Sochi gold medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was a moment both humbling and historic for 20-year-old Sage Kotsenburg Saturday afternoon. In the first-ever medal event of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, he earned the first gold not just from Sochi, but the first ever in snowboard slopestyle\u2019s Olympic debut. And he did it his way, with inventive runs that made an impression on the judges\u2014like his Holy Crail, a trick that he invented this past fall in hopes of becoming a contender\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/olympics\/2014-winter-olympics\/post\/american-snowboarder-sage-kotsenburg-wins-first-sochi-gold-medal\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hosts Jodie Nelson and JJ Thomas talk about what went down at the Mens Snowboarding Slopestyle Finals from Sochi, Russia<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/igASZvBdrIA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a moment both humbling and historic for 20-year-old Sage Kotsenburg Saturday afternoon. In the first-ever medal event of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, he earned the first gold not just from Sochi, but the first ever in snowboard slopestyle\u2019s Olympic debut. And he did it his way, with inventive runs that made an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90287","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=90287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90288,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90287\/revisions\/90288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}