{"id":13047,"date":"2010-01-12T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13047"},"modified":"2010-01-12T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:20:13","slug":"olympic-artificial-snow-more-resiliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13047","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Artificial Snow More Resiliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cypress.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cypress.jpg','popup','width=398,height=279,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\/2010\/01\/cypress-tm.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Cypress\" \/><\/a>As if <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=intrawest\" target=\"_blank\">Intrawest&#8217;s financial problems<\/a><\/strong> are enough of a mark on the <strong>2010 Vancouver Games<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cypressmountain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cypress Mountain<\/a><\/strong>, the resort that will be hosting the snowboard events closed yesterday for lack of snow, but that&#8217;s okay. Apparently artificial snow is better. . .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rain and warm temperatures forced Cypress Mountain, the Vancouver ski resort that will host the freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at next month&#8217;s Winter Olympics, to close Monday, but officials promise there will be plenty of snow for the Games. . . .&#8221;Right now we have all the snow that we need on the competition area,&#8221; said Tim Gayda, the vice-president of sport for the Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee. &#8220;The nice thing about artificial snow is it&#8217;s more resilient and actually stands up better to this kind of weather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s Canadian super artificial snow. Right. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/olympics.thestar.com\/2010\/article\/749457--games-freestyle-snowboard-site-closed-by-rain-warm-weather\" target=\"_blank\">The Toronto Star<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if Intrawest&#8217;s financial problems are enough of a mark on the 2010 Vancouver Games, Cypress Mountain, the resort that will be hosting the snowboard events closed yesterday for lack of snow, but that&#8217;s okay. Apparently artificial snow is better. . . Rain and warm temperatures forced Cypress Mountain, the Vancouver ski resort that will [&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\/13047"}],"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=13047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13049,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047\/revisions\/13049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}