{"id":21797,"date":"2009-10-15T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T02:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21797"},"modified":"2009-10-15T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T03:22:56","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-calls-2010-tour-tough-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21797","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong calls 2010 Tour tough, wide open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong considers the 2010 Tour de France course \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because of the cobblestones sections and three punishing summit finishes in the Pyrenees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The seven-time Tour champion attended the unveiling of the route and had lunch with French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He also said more cyclists will have a chance to win thanks to the elimination of the team time trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it will be much more open than last year because\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-tourdefrance-armstrong&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong considers the 2010 Tour de France course \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because of the cobblestones sections and three punishing summit finishes in the Pyrenees. The seven-time Tour champion attended the unveiling of the route and had lunch with French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday. He also said more cyclists will have a chance to win thanks [&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-21797","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\/21797","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=21797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21820,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797\/revisions\/21820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}