{"id":1043,"date":"2025-05-12T11:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:45:49","slug":"dave-linda-go-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/dave-linda-go-international\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 Dave &amp; Linda Go International!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CHANIA PETANQUE GRAND PRIX TOURNAMENTS \u2013 CRETE 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave &amp; Linda went international this week, traveling to Chania, Crete, to take part in the prestigious <strong>International Chania P\u00e9tanque Grand Prix Tournaments<\/strong>\u2014and by the sound of it, they had an incredibly busy (and exhausting!) week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After arriving, they spent a few evenings practicing at the local p\u00e9tanque club to get acclimated. On Saturday, they competed in the <strong>doubles competition<\/strong>, making it all the way to the <strong>semi-finals<\/strong>\u2014just narrowly missing a spot in the final with a close 9\u201313 loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not stopping there, they entered Sunday\u2019s <strong>triples competition<\/strong> with a couple from Finland. Dave and Linda rotated turns playing in matches and pushing through a full day of untimed games under the Greek sun. The finals didn\u2019t finish until <strong>10:30 PM<\/strong>\u2014but their hard work paid off. They delivered a truly <strong>astounding performance<\/strong> and went on to <strong>win the competition<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, they\u2019re taking a well-earned break: relaxing on the sunbeds, sipping bubbly, and soaking up the sun. \ud83e\udd42\u2600\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We\u2019re incredibly proud of them both\u2014what a fantastic achievement!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dave-and-Linda-crete-win-840x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dave-and-Linda-crete-win-840x1024.jpeg 840w, https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dave-and-Linda-crete-win-246x300.jpeg 246w, https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dave-and-Linda-crete-win.jpeg 876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANIA PETANQUE GRAND PRIX TOURNAMENTS \u2013 CRETE 2025 Dave &amp; Linda went international this week, traveling to Chania, Crete, to take part in the prestigious International Chania P\u00e9tanque Grand Prix &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/dave-linda-go-international\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 Dave &amp; Linda Go International!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}