{"id":5134,"date":"2004-08-02T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T20:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:16:35","slug":"mary-mcconneloug-earns-olympic-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/mary-mcconneloug-earns-olympic-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary McConneloug Earns Olympic Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5135 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MaryAthens.jpg\" alt=\"Mary McConneloug in Athens\" width=\"217\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MaryAthens.jpg 217w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MaryAthens-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 85vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Team Seven&#8217;s Mary McConneloug has been chosen to represent the U.S. in the women&#8217;s cross-country mountain bike race at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens this August.<\/p>\n<p>Mary has had a remarkable season and is currently ranked #2 in the world (behind Norway&#8217;s Gunn-Rita Dahle). In World Cup competition\u2014which is generally regarded as the closest approximation of Olympic mountain bike competition\u2014Mary has established herself as one of the world&#8217;s elite cross country racers. Her 2nd place finish in the most recent round in Calgary, Alberta on July 4th proves she is capable of an Olympic medal.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Mary, from all your friends at Seven Cycles. We&#8217;ll be cheering loudly for you in Athens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Seven&#8217;s Mary McConneloug has been chosen to represent the U.S. in the women&#8217;s cross-country mountain bike race at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens this August. Mary has had a remarkable season and is currently ranked #2 in the world (behind Norway&#8217;s Gunn-Rita Dahle). In World Cup competition\u2014which is generally regarded as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/mary-mcconneloug-earns-olympic-spot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary McConneloug Earns Olympic Spot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[187,331,5,210,1144],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mary-mcconneloug","tag-olympics","tag-press","tag-racing","tag-womens-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11819,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/11819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}