{"id":728,"date":"2007-08-06T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2007-08-06T08:35:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:35:18","slug":"x-games-on-the-white-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"X Games On The White Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/uniontrib-20070806-images-sp-x2-280.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/uniontrib-20070806-images-sp-x2-280.jpg','popup','width=280,height=187,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/uniontrib-20070806-images-sp-x2-280-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Uniontrib 20070806 Images Sp-X2-280\" \/><\/a>We all know action sports super hero <strong>Shaun White<\/strong> is the best all around competitive board rider in the world, however, yesterday at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">X Games<\/a><\/strong> in Carson, California he sealed the deal by becoming the first person ever to win gold in snowboarding superpipe and follow it up with a gold medal in vert by pulling it out in his final run of the <strong>ESPN<\/strong> created made-for-tv event. This is the third consecutive professional vert contest he has won this year (he&#8217;s apparently ruling the &#8220;Dew Tour&#8221; as well).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The judges confirmed the obvious, scoring White&#8217;s run a winning 95.75. Carlsbad&#8217;s Pierre Luc Gagnon took second (91.25). Enabling North County to monopolize the medals, Encinitas&#8217; Mathias Ringstrom earned third (88.25).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And while he may have moved up-market to Rancho Sante Fe we will still claim him as a <em>Carlsbadistanian<\/em>, even if he is getting written up in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/06\/sports\/othersports\/06xgames.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/20070806-9999-1s6xgames.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know action sports super hero Shaun White is the best all around competitive board rider in the world, however, yesterday at the X Games in Carson, California he sealed the deal by becoming the first person ever to win gold in snowboarding superpipe and follow it up with a gold medal in vert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}