{"id":295157,"date":"2026-02-17T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295157\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:14:08","slug":"watabe-savoring-every-moment-at-sixth-and-final-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295157\/","title":{"rendered":"Watabe savoring every moment at sixth and final Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    TESERO, Italy, \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Veteran Nordic combined \u2060skier Akito Watabe is content to savor the moment at his sixth Winter Olympics, even without a medal, as he prepares to bring one of the longest careers in the sport to a \u200bclose.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Olympic medalist finished 11th in the normal \u200chill\/10-km competition, \u200c1 minute, 52 seconds behind winner Jens \u200bLuraas Oftebro, and will compete again on Tuesday in the large hill event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s amazing,\u201d Watabe said after his first event on Wednesday. &#8220;My \u2060hope was to get some medal here, but it\u2019s okay. I was \u2060enjoying this really nice atmosphere and my sixth Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TESERO, Italy, \u2013 Veteran Nordic combined \u2060skier Akito Watabe is content to savor the moment at his sixth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[149617,85,46,149618,105,92300],"class_list":{"0":"post-295157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-akito-watabe","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-milano-cortina-olympics","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-team-japan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295157","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=295157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}