{"id":5699,"date":"2008-08-12T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explorebates.wordpress.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:31:31","slug":"from-bates-to-the-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/08\/12\/from-bates-to-the-games\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bates to the Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pressherald.mainetoday.com\/includes\/global2\/cms\/pph\/080811\/photos\/1646748-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"384\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Andrew Byrnes &#8217;05 is a member of the Canadian men&#8217;s eight crew that captured the gold medal Aug. 17 during the 2008 Olympics &#8212; Canada&#8217;s first medal in the event since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve pushed each other so hard and have such a great mentality on this team, it&#8217;s very confidence-inspiring,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I feel very fortunate to be rowing with these guys, being someone at his first Olympics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After earning a physics degree at Bates, Byrnes went to the University of Pennsylvania and earned his master&#8217;s degree in mechanical engineering. &#8220;I knew I had to finish schooling before I got to rowing full time because it would be tough to go back after rowing,&#8221; said Byrnes, who holds dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship. <a href=\"http:\/\/pressherald.mainetoday.com\/story.php?id=204308&amp;ac=PHspt\">[More&#8230;]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Byrnes &#8217;05 is a member of the Canadian men&#8217;s eight crew that captured the gold medal Aug. 17 during the 2008 Olympics &#8212; Canada&#8217;s first medal in the event since 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,24,11009],"tags":[11051,6636,10764],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-olympics","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62636,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions\/62636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}