{"id":7773,"date":"2021-03-14T21:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2021-03-14T21:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T21:35:59","slug":"stunning-images-from-kona-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7773","title":{"rendered":"Stunning images from Kona 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div>\n<p ><strong>INSPIRING DUO: <\/strong>Jeff Agar pulls his son, Johnny, who suffers with cerebral palsy, along the bike course \u00a9 Tom Pentington\/Getty Images for IRONMAN<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p ><strong>THE LONG ROAD HOME:<\/strong>\u00a0Elite male athletes make their way along the iconic 112-mile bike course, battling rough winds and soaring temperatures as they go.\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Tom Pentington\/Getty Images for IRONMAN\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p ><strong>POLITICAL FiINISH: <\/strong>The former Prime Minister of Finland,\u00a0Alexander Stubb, celebrates finishing \u00a9\u00a0Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images for IRONMAN<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p ><strong>ON THE LONESOME SIDE: <\/strong>Out on their own, underan unforgiving and relentless sun and surrounded barren lava fields, a lone athlete makes his way along the 112-mile bike course. \u00a9\u00a0Tom Pentington\/Getty Images for IRONMAN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>EXTREME AERODYNAMICS:<\/strong>\u00a0German athlete Boris Stein maximises aerodynamics as he cycles. \u00a9\u00a0Tom Pentington\/Getty Images for IRONMAN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>ROAD OF LOVE: M<\/strong>essages of encouragement for the athletes as they pound the hot pavement on the marathon course. \u00a9\u00a0Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images for IRONMAN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p ><strong>FINISH LINE:<\/strong>\u00a0After a phenomenal\u00a0marathon that saw him beat Mark Allen\u2019s run course record of 37 years, Patrick Lange of Germany takes 3rd place and completes the all-German podium. \u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images for IRONMAN\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INSPIRING DUO: Jeff Agar pulls his son, Johnny, who suffers with cerebral palsy, along the bike course \u00a9 Tom Pentington\/Getty Images for IRONMAN Advertisement THE LONG ROAD HOME:\u00a0Elite male athletes make their way along the iconic 112-mile bike course, battling rough winds and soaring temperatures as they go.\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Tom Pentington\/Getty Images for IRONMAN\u00a0 POLITICAL FiINISH: The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}