{"id":30175,"date":"2010-04-07T18:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T01:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30175"},"modified":"2010-04-07T18:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T01:31:31","slug":"cycling-sick-armstrong-pulls-out-of-french-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30175","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Sick Armstrong pulls out of French race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong has pulled out of the Circuit de la Sarthe race in western France before the second day due to illness, a Team RadioShack spokesman said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The seven-time Tour de France champion who was looking forward to the afternoon time trial, was suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and a fever, spokesman Philippe Maertens said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really bad, believe me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Maertens said by phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The team released a statement Wednesday saying Armstrong had come down with a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153viral intestinal infection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d after the end of the first stage Tuesday\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-circuitdelasarthe-armstrongwithdrawal\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong has pulled out of the Circuit de la Sarthe race in western France before the second day due to illness, a Team RadioShack spokesman said Wednesday. The seven-time Tour de France champion who was looking forward to the afternoon time trial, was suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and a fever, spokesman Philippe Maertens said. [&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-30175","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\/30175","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=30175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30176,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30175\/revisions\/30176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}