{"id":252966,"date":"2026-01-23T04:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/252966\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:53:14","slug":"mexican-cross-country-skier-looks-to-blaze-trail-for-others-at-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/252966\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican cross-country skier looks to blaze trail for others at Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    Mexico City \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Competing against opponents from Nordic powerhouses with a fraction of their resources, Mexican cross-country skier Allan Corona will make his Olympic debut at the Milano Cortina Games after reinventing himself in a sport where few of his compatriots have ventured.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent more than a decade in triathlon, Corona learned cross-country skiing from scratch after moving \u200bto Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic, immersing himself in one of winter sport&#8217;s most demanding disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Training \u200dfar from \u2060home and outside established skiing programs, the 35-year-old qualified for next month&#8217;s Games \u200dthrough steady international competition in a late-career gamble he said had been challenging but highly enriching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico City \u2013 Competing against opponents from Nordic powerhouses with a fraction of their resources, Mexican cross-country skier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-252966","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\/252966","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=252966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}