{"id":63290,"date":"2021-01-19T10:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T17:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=63290"},"modified":"2021-01-19T10:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T17:50:57","slug":"us-snowboarders-test-positive-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=63290","title":{"rendered":"US Snowboarders Test Positive For COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-63291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-923583462-e1610989361292-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-923583462-e1610989361292-200x112.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-923583462-e1610989361292-450x253.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-923583462-e1610989361292.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Snowboard World Cup took a hit this week as <strong>Kyle Mack<\/strong> and <strong>Lyon Farrell<\/strong> both tested positive for COVID-19 prior to this week&#8217;s <strong>Laax Open<\/strong> in Switzerland and will not be able to compete.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mack and Farrell are asymptomatic, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard on Monday. . .&nbsp;Other unnamed U.S. snowboarders who traveled and shared accommodation with Mack and Farrell, though they have not tested positive, are also out of the competition due to coronavirus policies and protocols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully they stay asymptomatic. Shaun White had already pulled out of Laax for non-COVID reasons and <strong>Chloe Kim<\/strong> was &#8220;not impacted&#8221; and will compete for the first time since March 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.nbcsports.com\/2021\/01\/18\/kyle-mack-lyon-farrell-coronavirus-snowboarding\/\">NBC Sports<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snowboard World Cup took a hit this week as Kyle Mack and Lyon Farrell both tested positive for COVID-19 prior to this week&#8217;s Laax Open in Switzerland and will not be able to compete. Mack and Farrell are asymptomatic, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard on Monday. . .&nbsp;Other unnamed U.S. snowboarders who traveled [&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\/63290"}],"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=63290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63292,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290\/revisions\/63292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}