{"id":17394,"date":"2009-07-25T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17394"},"modified":"2009-07-25T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:00:49","slug":"cycling-road-contador-ready-to-help-armstrong-once-victory-secured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17394","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Contador ready to help Armstrong once victory secured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong can expect some help from Astana team mate Alberto Contador in Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s penultimate Tour de France stage, as long as the Spaniard has already made sure of overall victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Contador will start the 167-km stage to Mont Ventoux with a lead of four minutes 11 seconds over Luxembourg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Andy Schleck, with the third-placed American only 15 seconds ahead of Briton Bradley Wiggins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite tensions in the camp since the Tour started in Monaco almost three weeks ago, Contador has offered to lend a hand to seven-times champion Armstrong during the 21.1-km ascent to the top of the hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tomorrow my objective will be to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-tourcontador_pix&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong can expect some help from Astana team mate Alberto Contador in Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s penultimate Tour de France stage, as long as the Spaniard has already made sure of overall victory. Contador will start the 167-km stage to Mont Ventoux with a lead of four minutes 11 seconds over Luxembourg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Andy Schleck, with the third-placed [&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-17394","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\/17394","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=17394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17395,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394\/revisions\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}