{"id":29655,"date":"2010-03-27T19:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T02:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29655"},"modified":"2010-03-27T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T02:18:11","slug":"cycling-armstrong-looks-his-age-as-he-fails-to-keep-up-with-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29655","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Armstrong looks his age as he fails to keep up with pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong looked his age when he failed to follow the main pack in the first stage of the Criterium International on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 38-year-old American, seven times a Tour de France champion, finished four minutes 51 seconds off the pace after struggling in the closing 14.2-km final ascent to the Col de l&#8217;Ospedale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong&#8217;s early-season preparations were then called into question when he crossed the finish line in the shade of stone pines above the sunbathed bay of Porto Vecchio &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-criteriumarmstrong_pix&amp;prov=reuters&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.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3701073?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong looked his age when he failed to follow the main pack in the first stage of the Criterium International on Saturday. The 38-year-old American, seven times a Tour de France champion, finished four minutes 51 seconds off the pace after struggling in the closing 14.2-km final ascent to the Col de l&#8217;Ospedale. Armstrong&#8217;s [&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-29655","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\/29655","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=29655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29664,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions\/29664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}