{"id":13410,"date":"2009-05-28T15:48:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T22:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2009-05-28T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T22:48:51","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-back-on-schedule-in-tour-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13410","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong back on schedule in Tour preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong is back on schedule in his Tour de France preparations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two months ago, the seven-time Tour winner fell and broke his collarbone at a race in Spain, jeopardizing his entire comeback after three and a half years of retirement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, in the third week of the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia, Armstrong is starting to keep up with the race leaders on the tough climbs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what I hoped for,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel told The Associated Press on Tuesday during the Giro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second rest day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hope for a great result in the Giro. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect him to be &#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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong is back on schedule in his Tour de France preparations. Two months ago, the seven-time Tour winner fell and broke his collarbone at a race in Spain, jeopardizing his entire comeback after three and a half years of retirement. Now, in the third week of the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia, Armstrong is starting to keep [&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-13410","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\/13410","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=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13412,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions\/13412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}