{"id":62962,"date":"2020-07-08T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=62962"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:53:07","slug":"boardercrosser-alex-pullin-dies-spearfishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=62962","title":{"rendered":"Boardercrosser Alex Pullin Dies Spearfishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pullin_bx-450x281.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pullin_bx-450x281.png 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pullin_bx-200x125.png 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pullin_bx.png 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two-time World Boardercross champion <strong>Alex Pullin<\/strong> has died while spearfishing on the Gold Coast of Australia, according to a story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-53331227\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a>. He was 32.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pullin, 32, was found unresponsive off a beach on Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast on Wednesday. . .&nbsp;He was treated by paramedics at the scene but could not be revived, authorities said. . .&nbsp;Nicknamed &#8220;Chumpy&#8221;, Pullin was Australia&#8217;s flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pullin competed for Australia in three Winter Olympic Games and had recently decided to retire from snowboarding, but not yet announced it. Our thoughts are with Pullin&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-53331227\">BBC<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowboarder.com\/news\/rip-alex-pullin-two-time-world-champion-australian-snowboarder-dies-off-gold-coast\/\">Snowboarder Mag<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time World Boardercross champion Alex Pullin has died while spearfishing on the Gold Coast of Australia, according to a story on the BBC. He was 32. Pullin, 32, was found unresponsive off a beach on Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast on Wednesday. . .&nbsp;He was treated by paramedics at the scene but could not be revived, authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/62962"}],"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=62962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62967,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62962\/revisions\/62967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}