{"id":16403,"date":"2009-07-13T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16403"},"modified":"2009-07-13T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:25:04","slug":"cycling-road-tour-schleck-more-impressed-by-armstrong-than-contador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16403","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Tour-Schleck more impressed by Armstrong than Contador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong has the strength to win his personal duel with Astana team mate Alberto Contador, another of the race\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s main contenders, Andy Schleck said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Armstrong is very, very strong and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very lean,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the younger of the Schleck brothers, and best young rider in last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour, said of the seven-times Tour champion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He has the engine to win the Tour. A lot of riders focus more on Contador, but Armstrong has a good card to play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If one day he has the chance to take some time, he won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t miss it. And then he will be very hard to catch,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the 24-year-old Luxembourg climber told reporters on the rest day in Limoges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Schleck, the leader of the Saxo Bank team, was unable to react when Contador attacked on the final climb to Arcalis, in Andorra, on Friday, but he does not believe the 2007 Tour winner has the race wrapped up&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-tourschleck&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong has the strength to win his personal duel with Astana team mate Alberto Contador, another of the race\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s main contenders, Andy Schleck said on Monday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Armstrong is very, very strong and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very lean,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the younger of the Schleck brothers, and best young rider in last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour, said of the seven-times Tour [&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-16403","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\/16403","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=16403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16404,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions\/16404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}