{"id":11391,"date":"2023-01-14T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T13:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11391"},"modified":"2023-01-14T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T13:10:50","slug":"the-big-day-downhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11391","title":{"rendered":"The big day – Downhill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Lauberhorn downhill race is the pinnacle of our sport. Victory today means immortality in skiing circles, particularly if you\u2019re Swiss. Last night we watched the bib draw from Paul & Anne-Marie’s balcony. It\u2019s the best vantage point in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later on in Rocks. Val’s ski school trainees seem to get younger every year. Here she is with Roxy and Sophie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This morning, needless to say, the jets are back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Downhill day will be even busier than yesterday. Jana is working at the coffee stall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I posted a picture of this food stall yesterday. Here it is again. The very sharp eyed amongst you may notice that prices have increased by 30%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The race was won by yesterday\u2019s winner Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. Marco Odermatt was second, one of 5 Swiss racers in the top ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lauberhorn downhill race is the pinnacle of our sport. Victory today means immortality in skiing circles, particularly if you\u2019re Swiss. Last night we watched the bib draw from Paul & Anne-Marie’s balcony. It\u2019s the best vantage point in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}