{"id":67780,"date":"2015-12-20T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67780"},"modified":"2015-12-20T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:41:14","slug":"sardinian-capital-cagliari-chosen-as-sailing-venue-in-romes-bid-for-2024-oiympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/20\/sardinian-capital-cagliari-chosen-as-sailing-venue-in-romes-bid-for-2024-oiympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sardinian capital Cagliari chosen as sailing venue in Rome&#8217;s bid for 2024 OIympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67782\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skyline-cagliari-per-frontpage-900x600.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67782\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skyline-cagliari-per-frontpage-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cagliari, Sardina, Italy cityscape. (Photo from Sardinia Italian Studies website)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skyline-cagliari-per-frontpage-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skyline-cagliari-per-frontpage-900x600-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skyline-cagliari-per-frontpage-900x600-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cagliari, Sardina, Italy cityscape.<br \/>(Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniaitalianstudies.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sardinia Italian Studies website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ROME\u2014Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia has been chosen as the proposed sailing venue in Rome&#8217;s bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Cagliari and Bari were on a shortlist of two after beating 15 other cities in the first phase.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Saturday, the organizing committee says Cagliari was chosen because it &#8220;offered the best weather-marine conditions with better intensity of wind and greater regularity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It adds: &#8220;Other aspects such as the environmental situation of the city on a human scale, the\u00a0travel\u00a0time, the Olympic village and the international popularity as a city of sailing, had a positive influence on the decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cagliari is 412 kilometres (256 miles) away from Rome. The Sardinian capital is in the south of the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME\u2014Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia has been chosen as the proposed sailing venue in Rome&#8217;s bid to host &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-67780","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\/67780","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=67780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}