{"id":11569,"date":"2009-05-06T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11569"},"modified":"2009-05-06T17:45:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:45:32","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-angry-over-astana-crisis-on-eve-of-giro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11569","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong angry over Astana crisis on eve of Giro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong lashed out Wednesday at Kazakh officials who let his Astana team fall into a financial crisis on the eve of his first Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know them, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a personal relationship with them, but I get frustrated,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the seven-time Tour de France champion who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s riding for free this season. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These Kazakhs, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t return phone calls, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a lot of clarity about what is going to happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The American cyclist even suggested his Livestrong cancer foundation might be able step in and bail out the team, but that seemed to be a long shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153While as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the Lance Armstrong Foundation would &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-astana-finances&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong lashed out Wednesday at Kazakh officials who let his Astana team fall into a financial crisis on the eve of his first Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know them, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a personal relationship with them, but I get frustrated,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the seven-time Tour de France champion who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s riding for free this season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11570,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569\/revisions\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}