{"id":300334,"date":"2026-02-20T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300334\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:36:11","slug":"fourth-place-finishers-at-olympics-grapple-with-emotions-of-near-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300334\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth-place finishers at Olympics grapple with emotions of near misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    Livigno, Italy \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>For the world&#8217;s elite athletes, failing to grasp an Olympic medal hurts \u2014 and especially so for the person who finishes fourth, among the very best in the world but just one step short of the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Years of grueling physical work and mental preparation can end with missing out \u200bon the medal places and the global recognition that they bring. At the Milano Cortina Games, German \u200csnowboarder Annika \u200cMorgan stood in the bronze medal position with one rider to go. That \u200brider was New Zealand powerhouse Zoi Sadowski Synnott, who put down a stellar slopestyle run that bounced Morgan into fourth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It sucks a lot,&#8221; Morgan said as she stood on \u2060the slopes in the Alpine town of Livigno. &#8220;That&#8217;s all I can say. Someone has to be fourth. And it&#8217;s me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Livigno, Italy \u2013 For the world&#8217;s elite athletes, failing to grasp an Olympic medal hurts \u2014 and especially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[147918,151565,151566,85,46,95444,151567,105],"class_list":["post-300334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-milano-cortina-olympics","tag-annika-morgan","tag-frankie-del-duca","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-joshua-williamson","tag-kirsty-muir","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300334","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=300334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}