{"id":56985,"date":"2001-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96e72ea5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-04-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-02T00:00:00","slug":"96e72eb5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96e72eb5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerade looking for triathletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you got what it takes to be a Tagaman?  How about a PowerAde Tagaman?<\/p>\n<p>PowerAde, the popular sports drink distributed on Saipan by the Coca-Cola Beverage Company (Micronesia), Inc., announced last week their plans to sponsor a group of triathletes in the upcoming Tagaman Triathlon.<\/p>\n<p>The event, scheduled for May 19, includes a 2 kilometer swim, followed by a 60 kilometer bike ride, and finishes with a 15 kilometer run.  The Tagaman triathlon attracts top athletes from a number of countries including Australia, Japan, Micronesia, the Philippines, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Danny San Pedro, Operations Manager for Coca-Cola, said that PowerAde will sponsor two male and two female triathletes from the CNMI for the upcoming race as &#8220;a demonstration of the Company&#8217;s commitment of support to its sports community and athletes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sponsorship includes not only the coverage of entry fees for the four athletes, but also a reasonable supply of PowerAde products to assist the athletes as they train.  &#8220;We feel that this sporting event represents athletics at its finest and requires discipline, determination, and endurance from the athletes,&#8221; commented San Pedro.  &#8220;We1re very excited to see Team PowerAde.&#8221;  Interested persons are asked to contact Michael or Tess at 234-6449.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you got what it takes to be a Tagaman?  How about a PowerAde Tagaman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}