{"id":16070,"date":"2009-07-08T15:07:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16070"},"modified":"2012-08-05T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:23:22","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-leipheimer-set-for-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16070","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong, Leipheimer set for homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong is among several riders who will have a homecoming of sorts during the sixth stage of the Tour de France, which heads south of the border Thursday from Gerona to Barcelona in Spain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many cyclists use Gerona as a base for training, near the Pyrenees Mountains. Armstrong lived there for five years, and said Wednesday it was a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153second home.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Among other Astana riders, American Levi Leipheimer splits his time between Gerona and Santa Rosa, Calif., and Alberto Contador gets to return to Spain\u00e2\u20ac\u201d though he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a native of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Always it is agreeable to return to your country and to (see) your relatives, because there will be many people coming to see me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Contador said in a statement Wednesday&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-tourdefrance-notebook&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong is among several riders who will have a homecoming of sorts during the sixth stage of the Tour de France, which heads south of the border Thursday from Gerona to Barcelona in Spain. Many cyclists use Gerona as a base for training, near the Pyrenees Mountains. Armstrong lived there for five years, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16070","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\/16070","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=16070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68062,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions\/68062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}