{"id":13602,"date":"2009-06-02T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13602"},"modified":"2009-06-02T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:31:17","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong%e2%80%99s-astana-team-still-in-financial-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13602","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Astana team still in financial trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cash-strapped Astana team are not yet out of the financial woods, team manager Johan Bruyneel said at the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The International Cycling Union (UCI) set Sunday as a deadline for the Kazakh-based team to meet its financial requirements after the riders complained their salaries were not being paid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The UCI has threatened to withdraw Astana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pro-Tour licence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The financial woes that left salaries unpaid are not completely resolved yet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bruyneel said in a team statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hope that the team sponsors will meet the deadline for the bank guarantee and the payments. Moreover the UCI now wants more guarantees about the team for the rest of the year.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-giroastana_pix________________________s&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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cash-strapped Astana team are not yet out of the financial woods, team manager Johan Bruyneel said at the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia on Sunday. The International Cycling Union (UCI) set Sunday as a deadline for the Kazakh-based team to meet its financial requirements after the riders complained their salaries were not being paid. The UCI [&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-13602","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\/13602","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=13602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13604,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions\/13604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}