{"id":12631,"date":"2009-12-21T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2009-12-21T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T01:14:16","slug":"palmer-still-hunting-olympic-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12631","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Still Hunting Olympic Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091220__20091221_C01_SP21OLYSBXp2.JPG.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091220__20091221_C01_SP21OLYSBXp2.JPG.jpeg','popup','width=394,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091220__20091221_C01_SP21OLYSBXp2.JPG-tm.jpg\" height=\"152\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20091220  20091221 C01 Sp21Olysbx~P2.Jpg\" \/><\/a>One the high points of <strong>Shaun Palmer&#8217;s<\/strong> wonderful horrible life was when he made the US Olympic snowboard team for the 2006 Torino Olympics. When a torn Achilles tendon pulled him out of the Olympics we were all pissed that the guy <strong><em>USA Today<\/em><\/strong> once called the &#8220;world&#8217;s greatest athlete&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t have a shot at an Olympic medal. <\/p>\n<p>But, according to a <strong>Scott Willoughby<\/strong> story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/headlines\/ci_14039538\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, you can&#8217;t count the 41-year-oid Pizalm out just yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Palmer is back this season for another shot at the Olympics, saying that the injury doesn&#8217;t affect his snowboarding these days. And after qualifying second at the opening World Cup snowboardcross race of the season a month ago and 12th here in Telluride last weekend, it would seem that the speed is still there. . . He could become the oldest man to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team with a repeat of his 2006 performance, but he has only three chances left to do it \u2014 the next one in Bad Gastein in January. After two of five Olympic qualifying races, he has finished no better than 17th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can think of nothing cooler than Shaun Palmer on an Olympic podium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/headlines\/ci_14039538\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One the high points of Shaun Palmer&#8217;s wonderful horrible life was when he made the US Olympic snowboard team for the 2006 Torino Olympics. When a torn Achilles tendon pulled him out of the Olympics we were all pissed that the guy USA Today once called the &#8220;world&#8217;s greatest athlete&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t have a shot at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12669,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions\/12669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}