{"id":11605,"date":"2009-05-07T07:28:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2009-05-07T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T21:46:03","slug":"cycling-road-lance-ponders-team-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11605","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Lance ponders team ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong says he has &#8220;high interest&#8221; from sponsors if he takes over control of the crisis-hit Astana team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Considering the economy and considering global sports sponsorships, if it&#8217;s the title sponsor on Tiger&#8217;s bag, or it&#8217;s stadium rights. It&#8217;s a tough climate for all that stuff. We&#8217;ve had high interest,&#8221; Armstrong told The Associated Press on Thursday as he prepared for the start of his first Giro d&#8217;Italia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong indicated the sponsor would come from a U.S.-based multinational company&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/oly\/cycling\/news\/story?id=4148364&amp;campaign=rss&amp;source=ESPNHeadlines\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong says he has &#8220;high interest&#8221; from sponsors if he takes over control of the crisis-hit Astana team. &#8220;Considering the economy and considering global sports sponsorships, if it&#8217;s the title sponsor on Tiger&#8217;s bag, or it&#8217;s stadium rights. It&#8217;s a tough climate for all that stuff. We&#8217;ve had high interest,&#8221; Armstrong told The Associated [&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-11605","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\/11605","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=11605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11607,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions\/11607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}