{"id":26492,"date":"2010-01-16T07:46:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=26492"},"modified":"2010-01-16T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:22:06","slug":"cycling-road-bike-armstrong%e2%80%99s-team-abandons-independent-drug-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=26492","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road Bike &#8211; Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team abandons independent drug tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong says his decision to abandon a personal and independent drug testing program is justified because cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biological passport makes the initiative unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong pledged when he returned to cycling last year after a three-year retirement he would submit to a rigid, independent regime of drug testing and that the results of those tests would be made public through a Web site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said Saturday he quickly found that\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-tourdownunder-doping&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.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong says his decision to abandon a personal and independent drug testing program is justified because cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biological passport makes the initiative unnecessary. Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong pledged when he returned to cycling last year after a three-year retirement he would submit to a rigid, independent regime of drug testing and that [&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-26492","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\/26492","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=26492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26494,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26492\/revisions\/26494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}