{"id":45043,"date":"2014-02-03T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45043"},"modified":"2014-02-03T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:21:08","slug":"torstein-horgmo-breaks-out-of-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45043","title":{"rendered":"Torstein Horgmo Breaks Out Of Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Torstein-20Horgmo-20140204000731568452-620x349.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Torstein-20Horgmo-20140204000731568452-620x349.jpg','popup','width=620,height=349,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\/2014\/02\/Torstein-20Horgmo-20140204000731568452-620x349-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Torstein-20Horgmo-20140204000731568452-620X349\" \/><\/a>During training on the Olympic Slopestyle course on Monday (February 3, 2014), Norway&#8217;s <strong>Torstein Horgmo<\/strong> went down on a rail and ended up breaking his collar bone, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/winter-olympics\/slopestyle-snowboarder-torstein-horgmo-crashes-on-sochi-danger-course-20140204-31xu6.html\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 26-year-old crashed on the slopestyle run&#8217;s rail feature and was taken to hospital with his neck in a brace. . . Horgmo suffered a broken collarbone and was pulled from the Games. . . &#8220;I am terribly sorry about this. Injuries and falls are a part of this sport but the timing is really bad. Now I just want to have a fast recovery and to get back on the board,&#8221; said Horgmo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Athletes have reportedly been complaining that the Slopestyle course was not built properly. Australia&#8217;s <strong>Torah Bright<\/strong> was quoted as saying: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The business&#8217;s best aren&#8217;t here building the course. . . When jumps aren&#8217;t built properly, if they don&#8217;t match up, yeah it can be a safety issue. But as long as the jumps are built fine, we&#8217;re all very experienced in our chosen disciplines, we&#8217;ll be able to manage it. It really shouldn&#8217;t be a problem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We hope Horgmo recovers quickly, and that the course gets fixed so it won&#8217;t cause more injuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/winter-olympics\/slopestyle-snowboarder-torstein-horgmo-crashes-on-sochi-danger-course-20140204-31xu6.html\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During training on the Olympic Slopestyle course on Monday (February 3, 2014), Norway&#8217;s Torstein Horgmo went down on a rail and ended up breaking his collar bone, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. The 26-year-old crashed on the slopestyle run&#8217;s rail feature and was taken to hospital with his neck in a [&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\/45043"}],"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=45043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45044,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45043\/revisions\/45044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}