{"id":1040,"date":"2008-07-02T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:32","slug":"huntsvilles-hoelzers-backs-toward-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville&#8217;s Hoelzer Backs Toward Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"246\" height=\"184\" align=\"left\" alt=\"margaret-hoelzer.jpg\" id=\"image1041\" title=\"margaret-hoelzer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/margaret-hoelzer.jpg\" \/>Huntsville&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/huntsvilletimes\/index.ssf?\/base\/sports\/1214990198304070.xml&#038;coll=1\">Margaret Hoelzer booked passage to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games yesterday<\/a> with a strong second place finish in the 100-meter backstroke event at the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha.<\/p>\n<p>Her 59.21 seconds would have tied the world record 2 days ago. But the winner, Natalie Coughlin, swam the first sub-59 second 100-back ever, her second WR in as many days.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Hoelzer&#8217;s second trip to the Olympics. She represented The Rocket City and the rest of the U.S. in Athens in 2004 where she finished fifth in the 200 backstroke.<\/p>\n<p>Competitive swimming and diving are a big deal in Huntsville, and we&#8217;ve long served as a seedbed for collegiate swim programs such as the University of Alabama and perennial NCAA powerhouse Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, Margaret dear, please remember this: You can actually get on a plane and fly to Beijing with the rest of the team; you don&#8217;t have to swim there.<\/p>\n<p>Since you&#8217;re an Auburn grad, I just thought you might need the reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huntsville&#8217;s Margaret Hoelzer booked passage to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games yesterday with a strong second place finish in the 100-meter backstroke event at the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha. Her 59.21 seconds would have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-huntsville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9380,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}