{"id":12596,"date":"2009-05-19T12:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2009-05-19T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:22:08","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-apologizes-over-giro-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12596","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong apologizes over Giro protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong was apologetic and avoided launching into a verbal war with race organizers following the protest that marred the ninth stage of the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an unfortunate situation, an accumulation of days and days of frustration and I think fear on a lot of people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parts and then this war of words and this war of power afterwards that we have to avoid,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Armstrong said in a video message posted late Monday, the Giro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first rest day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong played an integral role in a group protest that ended up annulling times in Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stage because riders considered the city circuit through downtown Milan overly dangerous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong was seen discussing the perils of the circuit with the race organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car as he pedaled through Milan&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-giro-armstrong&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3700955?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong was apologetic and avoided launching into a verbal war with race organizers following the protest that marred the ninth stage of the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an unfortunate situation, an accumulation of days and days of frustration and I think fear on a lot of people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parts and then this war of words and [&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-12596","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\/12596","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=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12608,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/12608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}