{"id":31146,"date":"2016-07-25T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/us-sending-record-number-of-women-to-rio-games\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T15:01:26","slug":"us-sending-record-number-of-women-to-rio-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/us-sending-record-number-of-women-to-rio-games\/","title":{"rendered":"US sending record number of women to Rio Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES \u2014<\/strong> The United States is sending 292 women to the Summer Olympics\u2014 the most women who have ever competed at an Olympics for a single country.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Olympic Committee officially announced its 555-person team Saturday. Three members of the team are making their sixth Olympics: equestrian Phillip Dutton and shooters Emil Milev and Kim Rhode. There are seven athletes making their fifth Olympics, including Michael Phelps, Bernard Lagat, Kerri Walsh Jennings and Venus Williams.<\/p>\n<p>At the London Games four years ago, the U.S. sent 269 women and 261 men, marking the first time the country was represented by more females than males.<\/p>\n<p>Dutton is the oldest U.S. Olympian at 52. There are four 16-year-olds: Kanak Jha (tennis), Laurie Hernandez (gymnastics), Sydney McLaughlin (track) and Laura Zeng (rhythmic gymnastics).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The United States is sending 292 women to the Summer Olympics\u2014 the most women who have ever competed at an Olympics for a single country. The U.S. Olympic Committee officially announced its 555-person team Saturday. Three members of the team are making their sixth Olympics: equestrian Phillip Dutton and shooters Emil Milev [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31146"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}