{"id":2324,"date":"2010-01-13T12:52:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2010-01-16T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T08:00:46","slug":"bum-ankle-takes-ross-miner-out-of-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/2010\/01\/13\/bum-ankle-takes-ross-miner-out-of-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Bum ankle takes Ross Miner out of nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ross Miner | \u00a9 Leah Adams\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/rossminer01.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-918\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Ross Miner\" src=\"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/rossminer01-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Ross Miner has withdrawn from the 2010 U.S. Championships, Jan. 14-24, in Spokane, Wash., because of a sprained ankle that he sustained in practice at the Skating Club of Boston a week ago. Miner was scheduled to make his senior debut in Spokane following a junior win at the 2009 nationals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sprained it doing a triple Axel while I was running my program,&#8221; Miner told Ice Network. After giving the injury a week to heal, hoping that he would be able to compete in his first senior event, Miner and his coaches Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson decided Tuesday to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d been skating the best I had all season, with two triple axels in my program,&#8221; said Miner, who won the bronze medal at the Junior Grand Prix Final last month in Tokyo, Japan. &#8220;It was just poor timing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since winning the 2009 U.S. Championship in junior men&#8217;s, Miner has experienced tremendous success, making his international debut with a 10th place finish at the World Junior Championships. He made his debut on the Junior Grand Prix by winning gold in Lake Placid, N.Y., and following with with a silver from Croatia.<\/p>\n<p><em>__________<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Figure Skaters Online strives to be an accurate source of information related to the sport of figure skating. To report an error, please e-mail the news editor. Include the article date and title in your e-mail.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Miner has withdrawn from the 2010 U.S. Championships, Jan. 14-24, in Spokane, Wash., because of a sprained ankle that he sustained in practice at the Skating Club of Boston a week ago. Miner was scheduled to make his senior debut in Spokane following a junior win at the 2009 nationals..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationals","tag-ross-miner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}