{"id":14177,"date":"2009-06-09T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14177"},"modified":"2009-06-09T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:41:41","slug":"cycling-road-kohl-top-10-tour-riders-also-doped-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14177","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Kohl: Top 10 Tour riders also doped last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, who retired after admitting he used a banned blood booster during last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France, suggests the race\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top 10 finishers were all doping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kohl finished third in the 2008 Tour and won the polka-dot jersey for best climber, but was then caught for using the blood-boosting hormone CERA when French anti-doping agency AFLD retested the race samples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In an interview Tuesday with sports daily L\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Equipe, Kohl said he knew he was going to test positive after AFLD became involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153At first, I once again tried to reassure myself: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOK, I was dead\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut we were all dead,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Kohl said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Many other riders &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-doping-kohl&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, who retired after admitting he used a banned blood booster during last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France, suggests the race\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top 10 finishers were all doping. Kohl finished third in the 2008 Tour and won the polka-dot jersey for best climber, but was then caught for using the blood-boosting hormone CERA when [&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-14177","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\/14177","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=14177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14188,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions\/14188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}