{"id":29366,"date":"2018-02-22T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/22\/winter-olympics-mens-ski-halfpipe-final-usa-aim-for-podium-sweep-live\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T01:44:00","slug":"winter-olympics-mens-ski-halfpipe-final-usa-aim-for-podium-sweep-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=29366","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics men&#039;s ski halfpipe final: USA aim for podium sweep \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand also hopeful of medals in PyeongchangEmail beau.dure.freelance@theguardian.com or tweet @duresportLatest medal table | Full event schedule 1.44am GMT I\u2019m warming up for this by watching the snowboard big air competition, which is taking place at one end of a soccer stadium. The ski jumps are at the other end. So the person who suggested \u201cski jump jousting\u201d as the next Olympic event might have a suitable venue.The good news about watching skiers doing all these tricks rather than snowboarders is that it\u2019ll be more obvious that the athletes have changed directions. You\u2019ll see them going backwards on their skis. Related: Elizabeth Swaney: the Olympic halfpipe athlete who doesn&#8217;t really do tricks 1.31am GMT Good evening everyone.If you\u2019re confused about the freestyle skiing halfpipe, let\u2019s offer a quick explanation &#8230; Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/feb\/21\/winter-olympics-mens-ski-halfpipe-final-usa-aim-for-podium-sweep-live\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Olympics men&#039;s ski halfpipe final: USA aim for podium sweep \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand also hopeful of medals in PyeongchangEmail beau.dure.freelance@theguardian.com or tweet @duresportLatest medal table | Full event schedule 1.44am GMT I\u2019m warming up for this by watching the snowboard big air competition, which is taking place at one end of a soccer stadium. The ski jumps are at the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}