{"id":11891,"date":"2009-05-11T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2009-05-11T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:15:57","slug":"cycling-road-valverde-banned-2-years-from-riding-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11891","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Valverde banned 2 years from riding in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde was banned from competing in Italy for two years because of his involvement in the Operation Puerto blood doping case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The ruling Monday by the Italian Olympic Committee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-doping tribunal does not apply outside Italy, but could keep the rider from this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France because part of the route goes through Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A statement issued by Valverde\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawyers and signed by the cyclist said &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-doping-valverde&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde was banned from competing in Italy for two years because of his involvement in the Operation Puerto blood doping case. The ruling Monday by the Italian Olympic Committee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-doping tribunal does not apply outside Italy, but could keep the rider from this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France because part of the route [&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-11891","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\/11891","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=11891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11892,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions\/11892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}