{"id":25183,"date":"2011-09-07T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25183"},"modified":"2011-09-07T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T21:50:00","slug":"snowboarder-defecting-to-race-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25183","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Defecting To Race For Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/snowboarder-wild-vic-668.n.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/snowboarder-wild-vic-668.n.jpg','popup','width=370,height=277,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\/2011\/09\/snowboarder-wild-vic-668.n-tm.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Snowboarder-Wild-Vic-668.N\" \/><\/a>Apparently, US Snowboard Team Alpine racer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skiing.teamusa.org\/athletes\/vic-wild\" target=\"_blank\">Vic Wild<\/a><\/strong>, 25, is planning to throw in the towel on the United States of America and race for Russia in the coming season, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/sport\/american-russia-wild-world-989\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia Today<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vic Wild, husband of Russia\u2019s world champion in parallel slalom <strong>Alyona Zavarzina<\/strong>, has expressed a wish to compete for the Russian national team, says the head of the Russian skiing and snowboarding federation. . . \u201cCurrently we are preparing the papers to be admitted to the Russian citizenship. It\u2019s hard to say now how long it will take,\u201d <strong>Leonid Melnikov<\/strong> told the <strong>Sport-Express newspaper<\/strong>. \u201cWe are very interested in this athlete. He would add more competitiveness within the team. We know him as a professional and disciplined guy,\u201d said Melnikov, adding that Wild has already begun learning Russian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We guessing the US Team won&#8217;t mind all that much. Za vas, Vic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/sport\/american-russia-wild-world-989\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, US Snowboard Team Alpine racer Vic Wild, 25, is planning to throw in the towel on the United States of America and race for Russia in the coming season, according to a story on Russia Today Vic Wild, husband of Russia\u2019s world champion in parallel slalom Alyona Zavarzina, has expressed a wish to compete [&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\/25183"}],"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=25183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25184,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions\/25184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}