{"id":22375,"date":"2009-10-29T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2009-10-29T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:40:11","slug":"road-cycling-tour-de-france-champ-contador-to-stay-with-astana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22375","title":{"rendered":"Road Cycling &#8211; Tour de France champ Contador to stay with Astana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will remain with the Astana team at least until his contract expires at the end of next year, an official with the Kazakh Cycling Federation said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Spaniard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future with Astana has been unclear for months amid persistent doubts about the Kazakh team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s financial viability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have absolutely no problems with Alberto Contador, and he will compete with Astana next season,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kazakh Cycling Federation deputy president Nikolai Proskurin said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The International Cycling Union (UCI) had warned that Astana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s financial troubles could &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-astana-contador&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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will remain with the Astana team at least until his contract expires at the end of next year, an official with the Kazakh Cycling Federation said Thursday. The Spaniard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future with Astana has been unclear for months amid persistent doubts about the Kazakh team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s financial viability. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have absolutely [&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-22375","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\/22375","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=22375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22376,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions\/22376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}