{"id":45,"date":"2017-04-05T12:37:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iceman.saffire.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:37:29","slug":"steve-tilford-dies-in-i-70-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/steve-tilford-dies-in-i-70-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Tilford dies in I-70 accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iceman.com\/articles\/2005798-steve-tillford-dies-in-i-70-accident\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.connectsites.net\/user_files\/iceman\/articles\/002\/005\/798\/medium.png?w=840&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Steve Tilford dies in I-70 accident\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s with a heavy heart we report that Steve Tilford,&nbsp;57, the first US mountain bike national champion in 1983,&nbsp;died early this morning in a car crash on I-70 in eastern Utah. Tilford&nbsp;was an ageless bike racer winning multiple national championships and a UCI Masters World Championship over his decades long career. He was the Iceman champion in 1999 and 2000 beating riders almost 20 years younger. It didn\u2019t matter if he\u2019d been riding or training recently, if there was a race that captured his interest, he\u2019d be there. He had an ability to focus his spirit and drive onto that particular event that set him apart from the rest of the field\u2026\u2026and his \u201cform\u201d was always &#8220;coming around&#8221;. We\u2019ll miss you, Tilley.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iceman.com\/votes?vote=1&amp;voteable_id=2005798&amp;voteable_type=Article\">&nbsp;Like&nbsp;(1)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iceman.com\/votes?vote=0&amp;voteable_id=2005798&amp;voteable_type=Article\">&nbsp;Dislike&nbsp;(1)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s with a heavy heart we report that Steve Tilford,&nbsp;57, the first US mountain bike national champion in 1983,&nbsp;died early this morning in a car crash on I-70 in eastern Utah. Tilford&nbsp;was an ageless bike racer winning multiple national championships and a UCI Masters World Championship over his decades long career. He was the Iceman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/steve-tilford-dies-in-i-70-accident\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steve Tilford dies in I-70 accident&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regular-news","tag-pro-men"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}