{"id":66344,"date":"2015-12-06T05:03:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T10:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66344"},"modified":"2015-12-06T05:03:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T10:03:44","slug":"del-bosco-thompson-win-ski-cross-world-cup-openers-to-give-canada-strong-start-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/06\/del-bosco-thompson-win-ski-cross-world-cup-openers-to-give-canada-strong-start-to-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Bosco, Thompson win ski cross World Cup openers to give Canada strong start to season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66345\" style=\"width: 744px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chris-Del-Bosco-Montafon-Ski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66345\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chris-Del-Bosco-Montafon-Ski.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Del Bosco (Photo from Instagram)\" width=\"744\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chris-Del-Bosco-Montafon-Ski.jpg 744w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chris-Del-Bosco-Montafon-Ski-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chris-Del-Bosco-Montafon-Ski-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Del Bosco<br \/>(Photo from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chrisdelbosco\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTAFON, Austria\u2014Christopher Del Bosco and Marielle Thompson won the ski cross World Cup opening races to give Canada a strong start to the season on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Del Bosco beat Brady Leman in the men&#8217;s final for a Canadian 1-2 finish. It was Del Bosco&#8217;s eighth career win but first in nearly two years. World champion Filip Flisar of Slovenia placed third.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s final, Olympic champion Thompson defeated Anna Helmlund of Sweden, Katrin Ofner of Austria, and Anna Woerner of Germany for her 10th victory.<\/p>\n<p>It was Thompson&#8217;s first race since injuring her knee at the world championships in Austria in January.<\/p>\n<p>World champion Andrea Limbacher of Austria lost balance and slid off the course in the quarterfinals but was unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>The ski cross World Cup continues in Val Thorens, France, on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTAFON, Austria\u2014Christopher Del Bosco and Marielle Thompson won the ski cross World Cup opening races to give Canada a strong &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-66344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}