{"id":4239,"date":"2013-07-25T16:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bmxireland.ie\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2013-07-25T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:14:37","slug":"the-score-25-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/25\/the-score-25-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Score \u2013 25 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescore.ie\/watch-irelands-kelvin-batey-win-gold-at-the-bmx-world-championships-1007956-Jul2013\/\" >The Score<\/a> article &#8211; 25 July 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Batey was crowned world number one in Auckland yesterday.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IRELAND\u2019S TOP BMX rider Kelvin Batey is savouring his first world championship title.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Batey was crowned world number one after he outgunned the field to win the Masters class at the UCI BMX World Championships in Auckland yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s taken 25 years, but it\u2019s definitely worth the wait,\u201d Batey said last night. \u201cFinally \u2013 World Champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sport is coming on a lot back home, so this is another step in the right direction and hopefully will bring more people to BMX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the perfect end to a perfect day after Batey won all three of his Motos and then followed it up with another win in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s0.thejournal.ie\/media\/2013\/07\/kelvin-batey-on-his-way-to-winning-the-mens-masters-class-2472013-310x415.jpg\" alt=\"Batey in action in Auckland yesterday.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescore.ie\/watch-irelands-kelvin-batey-win-gold-at-the-bmx-world-championships-1007956-Jul2013\/\" >HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batey was crowned world number one in Auckland yesterday<\/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":[122],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","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=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}