{"id":526865,"date":"2026-03-08T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:02:13","slug":"ben-tudhope-wins-australias-first-medal-amanda-reid-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526865\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Tudhope wins Australia\u2019s first medal, Amanda Reid taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s kind of the man,\u201d Tudhope said. \u201cHe\u2019s been on the tour for four years and he\u2019s got a rich history in snowboarding before this&#8230; Everyone is now more competitive for him being here so he\u2019s good for the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tudhope competes again later in the week in the men\u2019s banked slalom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of friends and family here so I\u2019ll definitely celebrate with them. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be on the beers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, his teammate and two-time summer Paralympic gold medallist, Amanda Reid, was transported to hospital after a crash left her face down in the snow and stretchered off the course. Reid will receive scans on her lower back. It was her second crash on the course in three days.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s two-other athletes in the snowboard cross, Sean Pollard and Aaron McCarthy, placed ninth and 12th respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard\u2019s goal had been to make the top 10: \u201cThe category is pretty tough, so I\u2019m versing people just missing one hand, and I\u2019m a double amputee. So yeah, fastest no-handed man on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This masthead has travelled to Cortina as a guest of Paralympics Australia<\/p>\n<p>The Winter Paralympic Games is broadcast on the Nine Network, 9Now and Stan Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s kind of the man,\u201d Tudhope said. \u201cHe\u2019s been on the tour for four years and he\u2019s got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-526865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}