{"id":25195,"date":"2009-12-11T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T22:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25195"},"modified":"2009-12-11T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T22:24:25","slug":"cycling-road-contador-astana-weaker-than-armstrong%e2%80%99s-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25195","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Contador: Astana weaker than Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tour de France winner Alberto Contador admits his Astana team is weaker with Lance Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s departure and the exodus of riders who followed the Texan to RadioShack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know that right now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not at the level of Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s RadioShack (team), but the atmosphere is great and the desire to work hard is there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Contador said at a preseason training camp Friday, according to the Gazzetta dello Sport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web site. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discuss it again in a few months.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Contador wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t interested in\u00c2\u00a0 &#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<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de France winner Alberto Contador admits his Astana team is weaker with Lance Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s departure and the exodus of riders who followed the Texan to RadioShack. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know that right now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not at the level of Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s RadioShack (team), but the atmosphere is great and the desire to work hard is there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Contador [&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-25195","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\/25195","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=25195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25204,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195\/revisions\/25204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}