{"id":5273,"date":"2009-02-13T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2009-02-13T08:09:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:09:47","slug":"olympic-snowboarding-prognostication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5273","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Snowboarding Prognostication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/van2010.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/van2010.jpg','popup','width=108,height=121,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\/2009\/02\/van2010-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Van2010\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics<\/a><\/strong> are one year out and already the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/chi-13-vancouver-olympics-medalsfeb13,0,6635598.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is making medal predictions. Writer Philip Hersh is making what he calls &#8220;glass half-full&#8221; guesses. Here&#8217;s how he believes snowboarding is going to end up with 8 medals, three of them gold: (Turin&#8217;s medals are in parentheses):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Snowboard (7 medals, 3 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze): Boardercross (1 gold, 1 silver): Champion Seth Wescott and Lindsey Jacobellis, whose hot-dogging turned gold into silver, both return: Prediction: 2 medals, 1 gold. Parallel giant slalom (1 bronze): Prediction: No medals. Halfpipe (2 gold, 2 silver): Shaun White, now a grizzled 22, will be hot again. U.S. women, including 2006 1-2 Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler, good enough to sweep. Prediction: 4 medals, 2 gold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When we add in <strong>Nate Holland<\/strong>, <strong>Kelly Clark<\/strong>, and <strong>Steve Fisher<\/strong>, we think there will be even more medals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/chi-13-vancouver-olympics-medalsfeb13,0,6635598.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are one year out and already the Chicago Tribune is making medal predictions. Writer Philip Hersh is making what he calls &#8220;glass half-full&#8221; guesses. Here&#8217;s how he believes snowboarding is going to end up with 8 medals, three of them gold: (Turin&#8217;s medals are in parentheses): Snowboard (7 medals, 3 [&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\/5273"}],"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=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}