{"id":16135,"date":"2012-08-13T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16135"},"modified":"2012-08-13T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:11:19","slug":"american-wins-gold-first-womens-boxing-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16135","title":{"rendered":"American Wins Gold, First Women\u2019s Boxing Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American <strong>Claressa Shields,<\/strong> a 17-year-old with a megawatt smile, won gold in the 75-kilogram competition with a show of raw strength and aggression against her older Russian rival, <strong>Nadezda Torlopova<\/strong>, 33.<\/p>\n<p>It was a win for youth and speed over strength and experience. Shields broke away from <strong>Torlopova<\/strong> in the second of four rounds by being faster on her feet.<\/p>\n<p>That approach frustrated <strong>Torlopova<\/strong> in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>By the third round, <strong>Shields<\/strong> had a five-point lead over <strong>Torlopova<\/strong>, and never looked back. <strong>Shields<\/strong> overwhelmed the Russian for a final score of 19-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Claressa Shields, a 17-year-old with a megawatt smile, won gold in the 75-kilogram competition with a show of raw strength and aggression against her older Russian rival, Nadezda Torlopova, 33. It was a win for youth and speed over strength and experience. Shields broke away from Torlopova in the second of four rounds by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}