{"id":19530,"date":"2009-08-24T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19530"},"modified":"2009-11-19T20:39:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T03:39:44","slug":"cycling-road-no-positive-tests-at-tour-de-france-says-uci-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19530","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; No positive tests at Tour de France, says UCI president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">UCI president Pat McQuaid said on Sunday there had been no positive dope tests at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France and looked to a drugs-free race being the future pattern.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">McQuaid told Reuters: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At this point in time I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard of any positive tests at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France or that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re checking samples to confirm positives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking like the Tour de France will not have any positive tests for a number of years. I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big step forward for cycling.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s professional cycling has been &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-tourdoping&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCI president Pat McQuaid said on Sunday there had been no positive dope tests at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France and looked to a drugs-free race being the future pattern. McQuaid told Reuters: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At this point in time I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard of any positive tests at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France or that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re checking [&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-19530","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\/19530","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=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23697,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions\/23697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}