{"id":243781,"date":"2026-01-17T22:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243781\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:35:13","slug":"nika-egadze-makes-history-for-georgia-with-sensational-mens-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243781\/","title":{"rendered":"Nika Egadze makes history for Georgia with sensational men&#8217;s gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nika\u00a0Egadze holds his nerve in free skate in Sheffield<\/p>\n<p>Egadze came into Saturday&#8217;s final segment with memories of last year&#8217;s European Championships, when he was second after the short program, but ended up finishing fourth overall after only ranking eighth in the free skate.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in his pre-skate press conference on Thursday, he had insisted: \u201cNow I know how to skate in the free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Egadze proved that in front of a near sell-out crowd, landing four quadruple jumps to achieve a personal best free skate score of 181.72, comfortably the top performance of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Egadze, who had never previously been on the podium at an ISU Championship, later celebrated with a penguin slide across the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nika\u00a0Egadze holds his nerve in free skate in Sheffield Egadze came into Saturday&#8217;s final segment with memories of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-243781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}