{"id":3773,"date":"2010-02-05T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T16:17:43","slug":"canada-russia-katie-calder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/canada-russia-katie-calder\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada a stepping stone to Russia for Katie Calder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Katie-Calder.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3774\" title=\"Canada a stepping stone to Russia for Katie Calder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Katie-Calder-280x186.jpg\" alt=\"Canada a stepping stone to Russia for Katie Calder\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Katie-Calder-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Katie-Calder-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Katie-Calder-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Katie-Calder.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>When Katie Calder begins her cross-country competition at the <\/strong><strong>Winter Olympics<\/strong><strong>, she could be forgiven for having a small part of her mind on events to take place in four years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Calder, Canberra-born but with New Zealand parents and who calls Tauranga home, was the first athlete to complete the qualification criteria for her sport to get to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>But while she&#8217;s determined to justify her selection, the next Winter Games, in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 are in her thoughts too.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old believes that will be her best shot at making the podium, so Vancouver is partly about storing up as much knowledge as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These Olympics will no doubt be nerve-racking and a great challenge, but it is also an important stepping stone in my quest for a medal in 2014,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is when I&#8217;ll be around the physical prime age for a cross-country skier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her parents were from Palmerston North and Rotorua, but from an early age she divided her time between the two countries.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 18)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Katie Calder begins her cross-country competition at the Winter Olympics, she could be forgiven for having a small part of her mind on events to take place in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,127],"tags":[3073,4838,4840,1017,1019,4842,4843],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-sport","tag-2010-winter-olympics-vancouver","tag-katie-calder","tag-katie-calder-winter-olympics","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-travel","tag-winter-game","tag-winter-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}