{"id":934,"date":"2014-02-18T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=934"},"modified":"2014-02-18T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T21:19:29","slug":"u-s-bobsledder-fires-back-at-jimmy-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/18\/u-s-bobsledder-fires-back-at-jimmy-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bobsledder fires back at Jimmy Fallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-935\" alt=\"holcomb\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/holcomb.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/holcomb.jpg 620w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/holcomb-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Fallon released his Olympic awards last night and not everyone is a fan of them.<\/p>\n<p>What did Steven Holcomb think of being named the &#8220;most likely to find an old hot wing in his pocket?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not too highly, in fact he opted to note Fallon is a coward.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1392758204637_1707\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1392758204637_1706\">&#8220;I actually did offer Jimmy a ride [in the bobsled] at the beginning of the season and he declined,&#8221; Holcomb told NBC&#8217;s Dan Patrick on Tuesday. &#8220;He said he was scared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well dang. \u00a0Holcomb later poked fun at the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>I&#39;m a little offended <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmyfallon\">@jimmyfallon<\/a>. Seriously, how dare you assume I&#39;m a teriyaki wing guy? I only eat Buffalo style.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steven Holcomb (@StevenHolcomb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenHolcomb\/statuses\/435819441482637312\">February 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Holcomb and Steven Langton became the first US two-man team to medal since 1952. Holcomb is a former Alpine skier and member of the Army National Guard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Fallon released his Olympic awards last night and not everyone is a fan of them. What did Steven Holcomb think of being named the &#8220;most likely to find an old hot wing in his pocket?&#8221; Not too highly, in fact he opted to note Fallon is a coward. &#8220;I actually did offer Jimmy a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}