{"id":181,"date":"2004-08-11T15:59:50","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=181"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:17","slug":"bhardwaj_chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/bhardwaj_chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhardwaj chosen U.S. Olympics team captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohini reaps the rewards of <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2004\/08\/11\/sports1232EDT0310.DTL\">intensity and seniority<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Mohini Bhardwaj&#8217;s already impressive story just got a little better. Bhardwaj, who is one of the oldest female gymnasts in the Athens Games at 25, was selected as captain of the U.S. women&#8217;s gymnastics team. &#8220;From a year ago, if you had taken odds on her making our Olympic team &#8212; even the odds of making it to nationals &#8212; she just continues to impress,&#8221; USA Gymnastics president Bob Colarossi said Wednesday.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/o_captain_my_captain.html\">pint-sized Rocky story<\/a> for awhile.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>It&#8217;s a bit of a surprise since she was one of the last chosen for the team, but only ex-Cuban gymnast Annia Hatch outranks her in seniority (Bhardwaj is 25, Hatch is 26). Both are the oldest female U.S. gymnasts in the Olympics in 40 years.<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohini reaps the rewards of intensity and seniority: Mohini Bhardwaj&#8217;s already impressive story just got a little better. Bhardwaj, who is one of the oldest female gymnasts in the Athens Games at 25, was selected as captain of the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/bhardwaj_chosen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}