{"id":11842,"date":"2009-05-08T17:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11842"},"modified":"2009-05-08T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:51:27","slug":"cycling-road-cyclists-at-giro-to-be-tested-for-cera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11842","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Cyclists at Giro to be tested for CERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Riders in the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia will be tested for the advanced blood-boosting drug CERA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Several cyclists have tested positive for the substance since last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All 198 riders entered in the Giro underwent routine pre-race tests by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday, and there will be 481 more controls\u00e2\u20ac\u201dplus surprise tests\u00e2\u20ac\u201dduring the three-week race that begins Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Giro director Angelo Zomegnan announced plans for &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-giro-doping&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riders in the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia will be tested for the advanced blood-boosting drug CERA. Several cyclists have tested positive for the substance since last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France. All 198 riders entered in the Giro underwent routine pre-race tests by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday, and there will be 481 more controls\u00e2\u20ac\u201dplus surprise [&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-11842","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\/11842","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=11842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11843,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions\/11843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}