{"id":25654,"date":"2011-10-03T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25654"},"modified":"2011-10-03T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:10:23","slug":"olympic-swimmer-lies-about-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25654","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Swimmer Lies About Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Olympic swimmer <strong>Kenrick Monk<\/strong> who broke his elbow falling from his skateboard apparently lied to police telling them the injury was the result of a bicycling hit-and-run accident, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/london-olympics\/swimmer-kenrick-monk-changes-story-on-hit-and-run\/story-fn9dheyx-1226156845242\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Swimming Australia said on Saturday that Monk had now changed his version of events, admitting he was not involved in a car accident. . . &#8220;The 23-year-old actually broke his elbow in two places falling off a skateboard with no other vehicle involved,&#8221; it said in a statement. . . The Commonwealth Games relay gold medallist, who also competed at the Beijing Olympics and the recent world championships in Shanghai, was on his way to training when the accident occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that Monk will never be able to &#8220;fully straighten his right arm again.&#8221; Well, at least he can still skate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/london-olympics\/swimmer-kenrick-monk-changes-story-on-hit-and-run\/story-fn9dheyx-1226156845242\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Sun<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Olympic swimmer Kenrick Monk who broke his elbow falling from his skateboard apparently lied to police telling them the injury was the result of a bicycling hit-and-run accident, according to a story in the Herald Sun. But Swimming Australia said on Saturday that Monk had now changed his version of events, admitting he was [&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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654"}],"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=25654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25655,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654\/revisions\/25655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}