{"id":45293,"date":"2014-02-20T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45293"},"modified":"2014-02-20T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:13:34","slug":"american-vic-wild-wins-gold-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45293","title":{"rendered":"American Vic Wild Wins Gold For Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vic_wild.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45294\" alt=\"vic_wild\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vic_wild-450x291.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vic_wild-450x291.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vic_wild-200x129.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vic_wild-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/vic_wild.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what has to be one of the best &#8220;I-told-you-sos&#8221; of the\u00a0<strong>2014 Sochi Winter Olympics<\/strong>, American Alpine snowboarder\u00a0<strong>Vic Wild<\/strong>\u00a0has won a gold medal in parallel slalom in Sochi for his new national sponsor Russia. After marrying a Russian Alpine snowboarder and realizing there was no hope in getting any support from US Skiing, Wild picked up a Russian passport and signed on with the Russian Alpine snowboarding team, according to a story on Yahoo Sports.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1392919016057_1561\">\u201cI told everybody in the Russian snowboard federation: If you guys take me, you\u2019ll never regret it,\u201d Wild\u00a0<a id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1392919016057_1574\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304899704579389243585521738?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304899704579389243585521738.html\" data-rapid_p=\"9\">told\u00a0the Wall Street Journal this week<\/a>. . .\u00a0And it won&#8217;t regret anything. Wild\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/us-expat-wild-wins-men-115537295--spt.html\" data-rapid_p=\"10\">won the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom on Wednesday<\/a>, an event that saw only one American entrant. Wild later celebrated with his wife Zavarzina, a fellow snowboarder who won bronze in the women&#8217;s event, and draped himself in a Russian flag.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While most don&#8217;t even consider Alpine snowboarding &#8220;snowboarding,&#8221; it&#8217;s still kind of funny to see the US pass on a Gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/olympics-fourth-place-medal\/american-born-snowboarder-vic-wild-wins-gold-for-russia--u-s--snowboarding-offers-its-congrats-133433724.html\">Yahoo Sports<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has to be one of the best &#8220;I-told-you-sos&#8221; of the\u00a02014 Sochi Winter Olympics, American Alpine snowboarder\u00a0Vic Wild\u00a0has won a gold medal in parallel slalom in Sochi for his new national sponsor Russia. After marrying a Russian Alpine snowboarder and realizing there was no hope in getting any support from US Skiing, Wild picked [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45293"}],"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=45293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45295,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45293\/revisions\/45295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}