{"id":12500,"date":"2009-05-18T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12500"},"modified":"2009-05-18T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:19:51","slug":"cycling-road-astana-riders-blank-out-sponsor%e2%80%99s-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12500","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Astana riders blank out sponsor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong and all but one of his Astana team mates protested at unpaid salaries by blanking out the sponsor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name on their shirts for Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seventh stage of the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Team members were not paid salaries last month and the International Cycling Union (UCI) has said Astana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pro-Tour licence could be withdrawn if the problem continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to pretend that everything is okay. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not okay. The riders only received two months of salary in 2009. I hope the shirt change will provoke an effect,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d team manager Johan Bruyneel told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We will race with these (blanked-out) shirts until everything is fixed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-giroastana_pix&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong and all but one of his Astana team mates protested at unpaid salaries by blanking out the sponsor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name on their shirts for Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seventh stage of the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia. Team members were not paid salaries last month and the International Cycling Union (UCI) has said Astana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pro-Tour licence could be withdrawn if [&hellip;]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-12500","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\/12500","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=12500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12509,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions\/12509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}