{"id":29695,"date":"2010-03-28T18:24:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T01:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29695"},"modified":"2010-03-28T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T01:53:40","slug":"cycling-contador-loses-out-on-chance-to-intimidate-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29695","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Contador loses out on chance to intimidate Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Twice Tour de France champion Alberto Contador missed out on an opportunity to intimidate bitter rival and former team mate Lance Armstrong when he suffered a rare upset at the Criterium International.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Spaniard cracked during the final ascent in Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hilly opening stage, citing allergy problems, and although Armstrong still finished far behind, he was not impressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was not going to compete with him,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the American, who was a member of the Astana team last season with Contador.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know that, he knows that, you know that. There is no mystery there, no surprise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Asked if they were in speaking terms, Armstrong laughed\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-contadorarmstrong_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<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice Tour de France champion Alberto Contador missed out on an opportunity to intimidate bitter rival and former team mate Lance Armstrong when he suffered a rare upset at the Criterium International. The Spaniard cracked during the final ascent in Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hilly opening stage, citing allergy problems, and although Armstrong still finished far behind, he [&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-29695","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\/29695","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=29695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29722,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695\/revisions\/29722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}