{"id":982,"date":"2014-02-19T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=982"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T16:37:39","slug":"get-to-know-russian-figure-skater-julia-lipnitskaia-photos-and-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/19\/get-to-know-russian-figure-skater-julia-lipnitskaia-photos-and-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know Russian figure skater Julia Lipnitskaia (Photos and info)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Julia Lipnitskaia is the latest figure skating prodigy\u00a0from Russia. With the 2014 Winter Olympics being in her home country it’s no surprise that the 15-year-old from\u00a0Yekaterinburg has been one of televisions favorites.<\/p>\n

Already Lipnitskaia has won a team gold medla but the 2014 European singles champion does not plan to stop there. She is six days younger than American Tara Lipinski who stunned the world with a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.<\/p>\n

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Of course if Lipnitskaia is to win the gold she will have to get past a few women representing the United States to include Gracie Gold, Polina Edmunds and Ashley Wagner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julia Lipnitskaia is the latest figure skating prodigy\u00a0from Russia. With the 2014 Winter Olympics being in her home country it’s no surprise that the 15-year-old from\u00a0Yekaterinburg has been one of televisions favorites. Already Lipnitskaia has won a team gold medla but the 2014 European singles champion does not plan to stop there. She is six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}