{"id":9717,"date":"2019-02-17T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2019-02-17T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T13:30:24","slug":"taljaard-claims-two-gold-medals-before-heading-to-canada-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9717","title":{"rendered":"Taljaard claims two gold medals before heading to Canada Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> A Fall River biathlon athlete has had a great few weeks of confidence building, claiming two gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>Madison Taljaard, who calls Fall River home, attended a meet in Fort Kent, Maine in early February after the Atlantic Cup 2 in PEI was cancelled due to icy trail conditions. Taljaard went to Maine with another athlete under the supervision of Biathlon PEI.<\/p>\n<p>Taljaard, who attends Kings Edgehill School, shot 80 per cent\u2014getting eight of 10 targets\u2014to capture gold in a field of five athletes in the first day. It was her first gold medal of her racing career, after earning many silvers.<\/p>\n<p>The next day saw the pursuit race where the athletes all start at the same time &#8211; called a Mass Start. Taljaard came up with another solid performance, claiming her second gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>It was a confidence builder for Taljaard who is off to Red Deer, Alta. this week to represent N.S. at the Canada Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: A Fall River biathlon athlete has had a great few weeks of confidence building, claiming two gold medals. Madison Taljaard, who calls Fall River home, attended a meet in Fort Kent, Maine in early February after the Atlantic Cup 2 in PEI was cancelled due to icy trail conditions. Taljaard went to Maine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[308,148,2,309,310],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-biathlon-n-s","tag-canada-games","tag-fall-river","tag-kings-edgehill","tag-madi-taljaard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}