{"id":200,"date":"2008-01-18T09:38:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2008-01-18T09:38:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:38:52","slug":"x-games-kicks-down-1-millon-in-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"X Games Kicks Down $1 Millon in Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The athletes are probably saying it&#8217;s about time, but <strong>ESPN<\/strong> has decided to reward the athletes with a little more than nation TV exposure this year as they up the prize purse to $1 million, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/article\/20080117\/NEWS\/678449154\" target=\"_blank\">Aspen Times<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The overall prize purse is up 38 percent from last year&#8217;s, and the total purse for all X Games competitions to be held in 2008 exceeds $3 million. This year, X Games events will be held in Aspen, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Dubai and two other international markets yet to be announced. . . . &#8220;ESPN is committed to ensuring that the best action sports athletes in the world compete on action sports&#8217; grandest stage &#8211; the X Games,&#8221; said <strong>Rick Alessandri<\/strong>, senior vice president and managing director, X Games franchise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One meeelllioooon dollars, yes. They better get paid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/article\/20080117\/NEWS\/678449154\" target=\"_blank\">Aspen Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The athletes are probably saying it&#8217;s about time, but ESPN has decided to reward the athletes with a little more than nation TV exposure this year as they up the prize purse to $1 million, according to a story in the Aspen Times. The overall prize purse is up 38 percent from last year&#8217;s, and [&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":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}