{"id":477,"date":"2010-02-17T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2010-02-17T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:00:13","slug":"477","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/02\/17\/477\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;margin-left: 5px\">American skier Lindsey Vonn had controlled the headlines leading up to the Olympic<a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com?iid=7984982&amp;term=%5c%22lindsey+vonn\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/b\/3\/7\/2\/Alpine_Skiing_Ladies_a718.jpg?adImageId=10426442&amp;imageId=7984982\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alpine Skiing Ladies Downhill - Day 6\" width=\"234\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a>s it seemed with concerns about her bruised shin. The headlines will now read differently as the 25-year-old captured Gold in the first Alpine skiing event earlier today.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;margin-left: 5px\"><\/div>\n<div>Vonn&#8217;s closest competition for the Gold at the Women&#8217;s downhill came from fellow American Julia Mancuso, while Elisabeth Goergl of Austria took home the bronze.<!--calling embedded video jsp --> <!--brightcove player begins --><\/div>\n<div><!--NYT video player embed code *starts here* - Build# 2008.09.17 -->  \/\/ Her time of 1 minute 44.19 seconds beat Mancuso\u2019s by more than half a second. Vonn became the first American woman ever to win the Olympic downhill and she and Mancuso provided the first 1-2 finish for American Alpine skiers since 1984.<\/div>\n<p><!--brightcove player ends --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American skier Lindsey Vonn had controlled the headlines leading up to the Olympics it seemed with concerns about her bruised shin. The headlines will now read differently as the 25-year-old captured Gold in the first Alpine skiing event earlier today. Vonn&#8217;s closest competition for the Gold at the Women&#8217;s downhill came from fellow American Julia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,495],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-lindsey-vonn","tag-olympics-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}