{"id":14656,"date":"2011-12-20T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14656"},"modified":"2011-12-20T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:00:10","slug":"vettel-beaten-to-germanys-top-sportsman-plaudit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-beaten-to-germanys-top-sportsman-plaudit\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel beaten to Germany&#8217;s top sportsman plaudit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dominating in formula one this season, Sebastian Vettel has been pipped at the post as Germany&#8217;s outstanding male athlete was crowned.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull driver missed out on the 64-year-old award &#8211; presented during a nationally televised ceremony in Baden-Baden &#8211; that instead was won by Dirk Nowitzki.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA star, who plays for the Dallas Mavericks, is Germany&#8217;s first basketball player to be so honoured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After so many years that was by far the best year of my career,&#8221; said 33-year-old Nowitzki.<\/p>\n<p>With the winner decided by a jury of 1500 sports journalists, Vettel came in a close second.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dominating in formula one this season, Sebastian Vettel has been pipped at the post as Germany&#8217;s outstanding male athlete was crowned. The Red Bull driver missed out on the 64-year-old award &#8211; presented during a nationally televised ceremony in Baden-Baden &#8211; that instead was won by Dirk Nowitzki. The NBA star, who plays for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[3462,5262,5340,3463,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14657,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656\/revisions\/14657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}