{"id":24021,"date":"2009-11-24T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24021"},"modified":"2009-11-24T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:05:02","slug":"cycling-road-astana-cycling-team-on-the-brink-after-new-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24021","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Astana cycling team on the brink after new demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The future of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Astana team is again in doubt after cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ruling body made new demands for financial guarantees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kazakh Cycling Federation deputy president Nikolai Proskurin said Tuesday that the International Cycling Union is demanding a bank guarantee of Astana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual budget before it will renew its ProTour license.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Proskurin says the demand is unreasonable and that he is unsure whether Astana can meet Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deadline\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-astana-tourlicense&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<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/placeholder-3700990?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Astana team is again in doubt after cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ruling body made new demands for financial guarantees. Kazakh Cycling Federation deputy president Nikolai Proskurin said Tuesday that the International Cycling Union is demanding a bank guarantee of Astana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual budget before it will renew its ProTour license. [&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-24021","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\/24021","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=24021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24039,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24021\/revisions\/24039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}