{"id":13824,"date":"2025-01-19T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13824"},"modified":"2025-01-19T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T15:50:27","slug":"slalom-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13824","title":{"rendered":"Slalom Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final race of the weekend is the slalom. It takes place on a short, very steep slope just above the village. The Scandinavian countries have a fantastic track record in slalom, and sure enough the Norwegian team took all 3 podium places this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As soon as the last racer crosses the finishing line, work begins to dismantle the World Cup village on the tennis courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1661\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-300x195.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-1024x665.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-768x498.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-1536x997.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-2048x1329.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0420-462x300.jpeg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a few days time all traces of the race weekend will have been removed, and everyone&#8217;s looking forward to a couple of quiet weeks in the village before the February holidays begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final race of the weekend is the slalom. It takes place on a short, very steep slope just above the village. The Scandinavian countries have a fantastic track record in slalom, and sure enough the Norwegian team took all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13824\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-13824","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\/13824","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=13824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}