{"id":1599,"date":"2012-08-09T15:59:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T19:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2023-11-01T13:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:55:33","slug":"crashed-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2012\/08\/09\/crashed-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Actually, I crashed on Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/losing-a-match-to-win-the-tournament\">sportsmanship discussion<\/a> from the Olympics, here is gold-winning British cyclist Philip Hindes\u00a0publicly\u00a0admitting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/08\/03\/oly-cycl-ctmspr-hindes-day-idUSL4E8J30BZ20120803\">he crashed his bike on purpose to get a restart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=IO5QGCzZhb0<br \/>\nHindes has since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S_BUZ9EHKHo\">retracted the comment<\/a>, but I have to say that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KO0YdXNhSSo\">one of the less convincing crashes I&#8217;ve seen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Via Dylan McKenzie.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More sportsmanship discussion from the Olympics, here is gold-winning British cyclist Philip Hindes\u00a0publicly\u00a0admitting that he crashed his bike on purpose to get a restart. Hindes has since retracted the comment, but I have to say that it&#8217;s one of the less convincing crashes I&#8217;ve seen. (Via Dylan McKenzie.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}