{"id":21023,"date":"2011-01-19T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21023"},"modified":"2011-01-19T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:05:10","slug":"terje-haakonsens-new-olympic-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21023","title":{"rendered":"Terje Haakonsen&#8217;s New Olympic Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/terje-haakonsen-portrait.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/terje-haakonsen-portrait.jpg','popup','width=333,height=500,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\/2011\/01\/terje-haakonsen-portrait-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Terje-Haakonsen-Portrait\" \/><\/a>The last time we read a letter from <strong>Terje Haakonsen<\/strong> it was back in the beginning of 1998 when he announced that he would not be participating in the first Olympic snowboarding halfpipe event in Nagano Japan because the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Olympic Committee<\/a><\/strong> organization was corrupt (someone <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flakezine.com\/snooze99.html\" target=\"_blank\">made fun of the letter at the time<\/a><\/strong>). <\/p>\n<p>Haakonsen&#8217;s criticisms were proven true three years later when it was shown that several<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2002_Winter_Olympic_bid_scandal\" target=\"_blank\"> IOC board members accepted &#8220;gifts&#8221; from the Salt Lake City organizing committee<\/a><\/strong> for their votes.<\/p>\n<p>Now an older and wiser Haakonsen appears interested in working with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">IOC<\/a><\/strong> to help young snowboarders get the chance he blew off and compete in the Winter Olympic Games. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/broblog.snowbroader.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Broblog<\/a><\/strong> posted the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/broblog.snowbroader.eu\/2011\/01\/19\/a-letter-from-terje\/\" target=\"_blank\">entire letter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, we tried reading the letter (written with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-a-c.no\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic Challenge&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Henning Anderse<\/strong>n) and didn&#8217;t understand a word of it. If you&#8217;re into Olympic organizational politics then dive right it. Maybe it will make sense to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/broblog.snowbroader.eu\/2011\/01\/19\/a-letter-from-terje\/\" target=\"_blank\">Broblog<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time we read a letter from Terje Haakonsen it was back in the beginning of 1998 when he announced that he would not be participating in the first Olympic snowboarding halfpipe event in Nagano Japan because the International Olympic Committee organization was corrupt (someone made fun of the letter at the time). Haakonsen&#8217;s [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21028,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21023\/revisions\/21028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}