{"id":13127,"date":"2009-05-24T15:24:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T22:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13127"},"modified":"2009-05-24T15:26:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T22:26:40","slug":"cycling-road-valverde-takes-tour-of-catalunya-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13127","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Valverde takes Tour of Catalunya win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Spaniard Alejandro Valverde, banned from racing in Italy, took overall victory in the Tour of Catalunya on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Caisse d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Epargne rider completed the week-long course with a 15-second advantage over runner-up Daniel Martin of Ireland. Third was Spain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Haimar Zubeldia, 22 seconds back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Valverde finished 19th in the final, 110-km stage won by New Zealand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Greg Henderson after a bunch sprint to the finish on the Circuit de Catalunya motor racing track. Second was France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lloyd Mondory and third Italian Fabio Sabatini.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Valverde said the victory in Spain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third biggest bike race was: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153very important, particularly given the difficult times I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going through\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Winning and racing well acts as &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-catalunya_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>Spaniard Alejandro Valverde, banned from racing in Italy, took overall victory in the Tour of Catalunya on Sunday. The Caisse d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Epargne rider completed the week-long course with a 15-second advantage over runner-up Daniel Martin of Ireland. Third was Spain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Haimar Zubeldia, 22 seconds back. Valverde finished 19th in the final, 110-km stage won by New [&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-13127","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\/13127","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=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13129,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions\/13129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}