{"id":3443,"date":"2012-08-09T17:32:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bmxireland.ie\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2012-08-09T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:32:53","slug":"irish-times-9-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/09\/irish-times-9-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Times \u2013 9 August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/\" >Irish Times<\/a>\u00a0article 9th August 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">The Minority Sport Report<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bmxireland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Lar-Eamonn-Irish-Times-Aug-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1064\" title=\"Lar &amp; Eamonn Irish Times Aug 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/bmxireland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Lar-Eamonn-Irish-Times-Aug-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Watching a four-year-old on his first BMX bike navigating the track in Co Meath is as good as winning gold, says former racer Eamonn Wyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cIt kills me not to be at the top myself. I\u2019m too slow, too old,\u201d he says quietly. \u201cBut I\u2019m 43 and for me it\u2019s winning just to see the sport back again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cIt never dawned on me to compete at that (international) level again, this is flat out power. It\u2019s 400m around, that\u2019s Usain Bolt by four you know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Continue Reading <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/features\/2012\/0809\/1224321786062.html\" >HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bmxireland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Irish-Times-9-Aug-12-Full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1066\" title=\"Irish Times 9 Aug 12 Full\" src=\"http:\/\/bmxireland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Irish-Times-9-Aug-12-Full.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority Sport Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[236,122],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","tag-featured-news","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}