{"id":31961,"date":"2019-02-05T20:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31961"},"modified":"2019-02-05T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:23:17","slug":"end-of-an-era-vonn-and-svindal-to-say-goodbye-to-ski-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31961","title":{"rendered":"End of an era: Vonn and Svindal to say goodbye to ski racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>It&#8217;s ski racing&#8217;s biggest event outside the Olympics and comes with the cachet of a world title to wear with pride for the next two years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Alpine skiing&#8217;s FIS World Championships take place in Are, Sweden over the next two weeks with legends to be forged, names to be made and scores to be settled.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The event will also mark the end of an era &#8212; American great <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/01\/sport\/lindsey-vonn-skiing-retirement-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Vonn will retire<\/a> from ski racing after Sunday&#8217;s downhill because of the ravages the sport and its spills have taken on her body over the years. And fellow speedster <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/28\/sport\/aksel-lund-svindal-skiing-world-championships-world-cup-alpine-edge-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aksel Lund Svindal<\/a>, Norway&#8217;s Olympic downhill champion, is also bowing out following an illustrious but injury-plagued career.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)It&#8217;s ski racing&#8217;s biggest event outside the Olympics and comes with the cachet of a world title to wear with pride for the next two years.Alpine skiing&#8217;s FIS World Championships take place in Are, Sweden over the next two weeks with legends to be forged, names to be made and scores to be settled.The event&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31961","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\/31961","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=31961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}