{"id":72,"date":"2014-02-05T12:58:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=72"},"modified":"2014-02-05T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:06:41","slug":"todd-lodwick-named-us-flag-bearer-for-sochi-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/05\/todd-lodwick-named-us-flag-bearer-for-sochi-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Lodwick named US Flag Bearer for Sochi Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_74\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74\" alt=\"Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/lodwick.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/lodwick.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/lodwick-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Todd Lodwick will carry the United States Flag at the Opening Ceremony at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Lodwick, is an \u00a0American\u00a0nordic combined\u00a0skier and will become the first American to compete in a sixth Olympic games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>BREAKING: Todd Lodwick, who will compete at his sixth Olympics in Sochi, named U.S. flag bearer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23OpeningCeremony&amp;src=hash\">#OpeningCeremony<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Sochi2014&amp;src=hash\">#Sochi2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCOlympics\/statuses\/431105419843342336\">February 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lodwick, a native of Steamboat Springs, Colorado\u00a0first entered the Olympic games \u00a0in\u00a01994 at\u00a0Lillehammer. \u00a0Since then, he has competed in every Olympic games to date.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lodwick won 19 US-championships in\u00a0nordic skiing: 11 in Nordic combined and 8 in\u00a0ski jumping. Yet still, Lodwick had not won a medal at a major event and decided to retire after the 2006 Turin games. He came back two years later citing his desire to win a medal.\u00a0In 2009, he became\u00a0world champion\u00a0in nordic combined.<\/p>\n<p>Lodwick comes into Sochi ranked No. 52 in the world and isn&#8217;t expected to medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Lodwick will carry the United States Flag at the Opening Ceremony at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Lodwick, is an \u00a0American\u00a0nordic combined\u00a0skier and will become the first American to compete in a sixth Olympic games. BREAKING: Todd Lodwick, who will compete at his sixth Olympics in Sochi, named U.S. flag bearer at the #OpeningCeremony. #Sochi2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,14,15,13,11],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-nordic-combined","9":"tag-opening-ceremony","10":"tag-sochi","11":"tag-sochi-olympics","12":"tag-todd-lodwick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}