{"id":447498,"date":"2023-07-31T01:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T05:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447498"},"modified":"2023-07-31T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T05:30:07","slug":"u-s-junior-star-magnus-white-dies-in-a-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/u-s-junior-star-magnus-white-dies-in-a-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Junior star Magnus White dies in a car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Junior Men&#8217;s National Team member Magnus White has died at the age of 17 after being hit by a car while training in his home in Boulder, Colorado, USA Cycling announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>White was preparing to leave for Glasgow to compete in the Junior Men&#8217;s Mountain Bike Cross-Country World Championships, starting on on August 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a rising star in the off-road cycling scene and his passion for cycling was evident through his racing and camaraderie with his teammates and local community,&#8221; USA Cycling said in a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share the news that 17-year-old Magnus White has passed away in a training accident.<\/p>\n<p>Please read USA Cycling&#8217;s statement in Memory of Magnus White: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vZryL710K8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/vZryL710K8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q8CCkJnYdL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q8CCkJnYdL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USA Cycling (@usacycling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usacycling\/status\/1685753590537768961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He won the 2021 Junior 17-18 Cyclocross National Championships, which he called a &#8220;pivotal moment&#8221; that provided him with opportunities to race in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Junior Men&#8217;s National Team member Magnus White has died at the age of 17 after being hit by a car while training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":447499,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19894],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[19895],"acf":{"announce":"Magnus White was preparing for a race in Scotland","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447498"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447498"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}