{"id":1433,"date":"2009-02-26T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2009-03-17T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:15:11","slug":"armstrong-was-back-on-his-bike-at-the-amgen-tour-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Armstrong was back on his bike at the Amgen Tour of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1432\" title=\"lance-armstrong_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/lance-armstrong_1-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"lance-armstrong_1\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Just because he&#8217;s lean and ripped and far more fit than he&#8217;s ever been at this time of year, <strong>Lance Armstrong<\/strong> won&#8217;t necessarily regain the form that won him seven Tours de France. Just because those questions about his past have faded from the foreground, they haven&#8217;t necessarily gone away. And while none of them care to be quoted, there are plenty of cycling people who wish he&#8217;d leave and not come back. He is a magnet for attention that might otherwise redound to more deserving riders &#8212; guys like his Astana teammate <strong>Levi Leipheimer<\/strong>, who on Sunday clinched his third straight victory in the Amgen Tour of California, but whose next mention in this story is more than a thousand words away. But give Armstrong this: &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/austin_murphy\/02\/25\/lance.armstrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because he&#8217;s lean and ripped and far more fit than he&#8217;s ever been at this time of year, Lance Armstrong won&#8217;t necessarily regain the form that won him seven Tours de France. Just because those questions about his past have faded from the foreground, they haven&#8217;t necessarily gone away. And while none of them [&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-1433","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\/1433","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=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}