{"id":15491,"date":"2009-07-03T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15491"},"modified":"2009-07-03T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T21:59:12","slug":"cycling-road-tour-ready-for-start-with-armstrong-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15491","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Tour ready for start with Armstrong back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Tour de France is ready for another edition with Lance Armstrong, and Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opening stage may show whether he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ready to challenge for another title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 37-year-old legs will be tested immediately when the three-week race begins with a 9.6-mile time trial. The stage will be run along the hilly streets and hairpin turns of Monaco, a Mediterranean principality better known for Formula One than for huffing two-wheelers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The ride will likely offer an early shakeout of potential contenders who want to at least hold their own in the race against the clock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Specialists in the discipline include &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-tourdefrance&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour de France is ready for another edition with Lance Armstrong, and Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opening stage may show whether he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ready to challenge for another title. Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 37-year-old legs will be tested immediately when the three-week race begins with a 9.6-mile time trial. The stage will be run along the hilly streets and hairpin turns [&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-15491","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\/15491","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=15491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15493,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions\/15493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}