{"id":90633,"date":"2014-02-17T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90633"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T16:07:50","slug":"are-the-olympics-forcing-athletes-to-push-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90633","title":{"rendered":"Are the Olympics forcing athletes to push too hard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Skiers, snowboarders still riding despite debilitating injuries<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Simon Dumont, one of the winningest halfpipe skiers in the world, stood at the top of the pipe for the final Olympic qualifying event last month, he was hurting and down to just his right anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); he\u2019d blown the left one the day before. He put down a less technical run than he normally does and finished 12th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That run will probably be his final competitive trip down the halfpipe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dumont\u2019s knee injury kept him off the podium, which meant he didn\u2019t have enough points to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/olympics\/2014-winter-olympics\/post\/are-the-olympics-forcing-athletes-to-push-too-hard\/\" 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>Skiers, snowboarders still riding despite debilitating injuries When Simon Dumont, one of the winningest halfpipe skiers in the world, stood at the top of the pipe for the final Olympic qualifying event last month, he was hurting and down to just his right anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); he\u2019d blown the left one the day before. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90633","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=90633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90634,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90633\/revisions\/90634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}