{"id":27216,"date":"2018-12-28T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27216"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:22:06","slug":"special-forces-training-speeds-up-us-downhillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27216","title":{"rendered":"Special forces training speeds up US downhillers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Lips turning blue, they shiver in ice baths, unable to escape. Only the cooperation of teammates solving mental puzzles and completing physical challenges can release them from the water&#8217;s frozen grip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;For the first guys in the ice it was brutal,&#8221; says John McBride, head speed coach for the US men&#8217;s ski team. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t work together as a team, we weren&#8217;t communicating effectively.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Plunging his team in ice is a technique McBride learned from US special forces and is part of his quest to take American downhillers back to the top.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Lips turning blue, they shiver in ice baths, unable to escape. Only the cooperation of teammates solving mental puzzles and completing physical challenges can release them from the water&#8217;s frozen grip.&#8221;For the first guys in the ice it was brutal,&#8221; says John McBride, head speed coach for the US men&#8217;s ski team. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}