{"id":28422,"date":"2012-02-15T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28422"},"modified":"2012-02-15T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:19:25","slug":"norwegians-disappointed-about-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28422","title":{"rendered":"Norwegians Disappointed About World Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wsc-logo5.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wsc-logo5.jpg','popup','width=200,height=198,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\/2012\/02\/wsc-logo5-tm.jpg\" height=\"198\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Wsc-Logo5\" \/><\/a>It appears that not everyone is happy about the way the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsc2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 World Snowboarding Championships in Oslo, Norway<\/a><\/strong> are going down this week, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsinenglish.no\/2012\/02\/15\/snowboarding-disappointment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Views and News From Norway<\/a><\/strong>. For one thing there&#8217;s only one Norwegian in the slopestyle semi-finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was the latest in a string of disappointments for the organizers of the World Snowboarding Championships, being held at Oslo Winter Park in the hills above the capital. They failed to secure a main sponsor, which means Oslo taxpayers look likely to be stuck with a bill of NOK 28 million since city officials agreed to mount a guarantee for that amount. . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ticket sales were also a problem according to the story. Organizers who hoped to sell 25,000 tickets had only sold 3,350 by the start of the event and 5,000 as of yesterday. That&#8217;s compared to the 270,000 that were sold for the Nordic skiing world championships.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Norwegian snowboarding legend <strong>Terje H\u00e5konsen<\/strong> himself had told <em>Aftenposten<\/em> that his goal was to convince \u201csnowboard haters\u201d that his sport is worthy of respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still think it would be great to be there right now. We wouldn&#8217;t be disappointed at all to see it live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsinenglish.no\/2012\/02\/15\/snowboarding-disappointment\/\" title=\"Views and News From Norway\">Views and News From Norway<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that not everyone is happy about the way the 2012 World Snowboarding Championships in Oslo, Norway are going down this week, according to a story on Views and News From Norway. For one thing there&#8217;s only one Norwegian in the slopestyle semi-finals. It was the latest in a string of disappointments for the [&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\/28422"}],"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=28422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28424,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28422\/revisions\/28424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}