{"id":45133,"date":"2014-02-10T08:45:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45133"},"modified":"2014-02-10T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:47:31","slug":"the-sochi-pipe-sucks-its-lame-davis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45133","title":{"rendered":"The Sochi Pipe Sucks: &#8220;It&#8217;s Lame&#8221; Davis Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/davis_danny.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/davis_danny.jpeg','popup','width=310,height=206,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\/davis_danny-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Davis Danny\" \/><\/a>US Olympic Halfpiper <strong>Danny Davis<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t even begun competing and already he&#8217;s going for style points with his view of the Sochi Olympic halfpipe, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/american-snowboarder-blasts-sochi-halfpipe-as--garbage-081255861.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Sports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American Danny Davis, one of the sport&#8217;s most respected figures, said the pipe&#8217;s flat bottom \u2013 the area that serves as a transition between the 22-foot-tall walls on each side \u2013 is bumpy and full of sugary snow, causing significant problems for riders. Two other sources confirmed Davis&#8217; concerns, with one calling the halfpipe &#8220;unsalvageable.&#8221; . . . &#8220;It&#8217;s the Olympics. It should be flawless,&#8221; Davis told Yahoo Sports. &#8220;What a lame showcase of snowboarding, and what a lame way to treat the athletes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials are saying they had similar snow problems in Vancouver and pulled it off so we shouldn&#8217;t worry. Aside from the judging, organizers appeared to have pulled off slopestyle, guess we&#8217;ll all have to pray they can pull off the halfpipe by tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/american-snowboarder-blasts-sochi-halfpipe-as--garbage-081255861.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Sports<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Olympic Halfpiper Danny Davis hasn&#8217;t even begun competing and already he&#8217;s going for style points with his view of the Sochi Olympic halfpipe, according to Yahoo Sports. American Danny Davis, one of the sport&#8217;s most respected figures, said the pipe&#8217;s flat bottom \u2013 the area that serves as a transition between the 22-foot-tall walls [&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\/45133"}],"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=45133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45134,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133\/revisions\/45134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}