{"id":16451,"date":"2009-07-13T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T20:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16451"},"modified":"2012-08-05T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T22:46:14","slug":"cycling-road-an-unresolved-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16451","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; An unresolved Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the midway point of the Tour de France closes in, the eventual outcome remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite more than a week passed and more than 800 miles covered, much of the plot of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race is yet to unravel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong believes it may all boil down to the penultimate stage on Mont Ventoux and it is hard to argue with his logic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here we take a look at the key questions of the Tour and where things stand so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. Can Armstrong win it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was the biggest \u00e2\u20ac\u0153if\u00e2\u20ac\u009d before the start of the event and many cycling experts were resoundingly negative about the Texan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chances&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ro-tour071309&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the midway point of the Tour de France closes in, the eventual outcome remains a mystery. Despite more than a week passed and more than 800 miles covered, much of the plot of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race is yet to unravel. Lance Armstrong believes it may all boil down to the penultimate stage on Mont [&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-16451","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\/16451","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=16451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67974,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16451\/revisions\/67974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}