{"id":449,"date":"2008-02-18T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2008-02-18T07:58:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:58:30","slug":"bikini-girl-beats-surfer-girl-in-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Bikini Girl Beats Surfer Girl In Prize Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/sportingsexism-180.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/sportingsexism-180.jpg','popup','width=180,height=120,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\/2008\/02\/sportingsexism-180-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sportingsexism 180\" \/><\/a>At the recent <strong>Billabong-Pro Open<\/strong> women&#8217;s event in Whagamata, New Zealand, <strong>Mishca Davis<\/strong>, the winner of the event, was supposed to take home a $750 prize. But she wasn&#8217;t so happy about that when she found out that the top prize at the <strong>Von Zipper Bikini Contest<\/strong> held later that night was $1,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was expecting to win about a grand,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;The heat sheet said $750. During the contest they started announcing the bikini contest that was going to be on and then they said the first place winner was going to get a grand and it was like what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;At first it was a bit funny, and then I was a little bit angry, because a thousand dollars is a lot of money,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;Theres a big difference between 1st place in a women&#8217;s surfing competition and a bikini contest. It just doesn&#8217;t seem to add up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When New Zealand&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv3.co.nz\/News\/Sexisminthesportingworldseemstoberife\/tabid\/209\/articleID\/46541\/cat\/41\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TV3<\/a><\/strong> tried to contact Billabong corporate communications office in Australia, Billabong would not respond, instead they provided the station with information about the amount of money Billabong contributes to surfing sponsorship. <\/p>\n<p>Nice, spin, Billabong. Be sure to watch the video. Amazingly funny, stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv3.co.nz\/News\/Sexisminthesportingworldseemstoberife\/tabid\/209\/articleID\/46541\/cat\/41\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TV3<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent Billabong-Pro Open women&#8217;s event in Whagamata, New Zealand, Mishca Davis, the winner of the event, was supposed to take home a $750 prize. But she wasn&#8217;t so happy about that when she found out that the top prize at the Von Zipper Bikini Contest held later that night was $1,000. &#8220;I was [&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":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}