{"id":483,"date":"2008-08-28T04:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T09:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=483"},"modified":"2008-08-28T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T13:04:46","slug":"can-you-be-an-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/can-you-be-an-olympian\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Be An Olympian?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Two average guys, Dennis <\/a>and Christian <\/a>decided as part of the 5 in 5 Challenge<\/a> that they would see how they fared against Olympic athletes in 5 different events. You can read more about it at the 5in5.com blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 5 events were:<\/p>\n

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  1. 100m freestyle,<\/li>\n
  2. 100m dash,<\/li>\n
  3. 110m hurdles,<\/li>\n
  4. long jump and<\/li>\n
  5. the rings (in gymnastics)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It is a pretty neat video, so be sure to watch it.\u00a0 I won’t spoil the fun, but I bet you can guess the outcome!<\/p>\n

    <\/object>\n<\/p>\n

    Finally, there is some bonus footage at their blog entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    HT: Get Fit Slowly<\/a><\/p>\n

    [tags] Olympics, Video [\/tags]<\/p>\n

    \"Reblog<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two average guys, Dennis and Christian decided as part of the 5 in 5 Challenge that they would see how they fared against Olympic athletes in 5 different events. You can read more about it at the 5in5.com blog. The 5 events were: 100m freestyle, 100m dash, 110m hurdles, long jump and the rings (in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,7],"tags":[79,178,179,75,180],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympics","category-resources","tag-athletics","tag-long-jump","tag-olympic","tag-olympic-games","tag-track-and-field"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-7N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":302,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/foto-friday-olympic-trials-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":0},"title":"Foto Friday – Olympic Trials Edition","author":"crossn81","date":"June 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of the Olympic Trials which are this weekend here is a race number from a college race I did. 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