{"id":16586,"date":"2009-07-14T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2012-08-05T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T22:24:06","slug":"cycling-road-tour-tonic-for-cavendish-after-pyrenees-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16586","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Tour-Tonic for Cavendish after Pyrenees pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A perfectly set up sprint gave Mark Cavendish another stage victory and just the tonic he needed on Tuesday after three punishing stages of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Briton, who now has seven Tour wins to his name \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including three in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race\u00e2\u20ac\u201dstruggled in the first mountain stages but showed few ill effects as he crossed first on the 194.5-km ride from Limoges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good win, the finish was difficult, with an uphill part and a lot of corners,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cavendish told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I told myself that I had maybe started (my sprint) too soon but I was perfectly set up by (Columbia team mate) Mark (Renshaw)&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-tourcavendish_pix&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfectly set up sprint gave Mark Cavendish another stage victory and just the tonic he needed on Tuesday after three punishing stages of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees. The Briton, who now has seven Tour wins to his name \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including three in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race\u00e2\u20ac\u201dstruggled in the first mountain stages but [&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-16586","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\/16586","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=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67953,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/67953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}