{"id":33656,"date":"2010-07-03T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T20:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=33656"},"modified":"2010-07-03T13:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T20:22:05","slug":"cycling-cancellara-wins-armstrong-contador-duel-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=33656","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Cancellara wins, Armstrong-Contador duel looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">* Swiss takes prologue ahead of German Tony Martin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">* Armstrong fourth, five seconds in front of Contador<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Tour de France began on Saturday in a near carbon copy of last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edition, with the victory of Fabian Cancellara in the prologue and the promise of a showdown between Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Switzerland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cancellara is the time-trial world and Olympic champion\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe best active prologue specialist in the peloton \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and he made a point of clocking a perfect time of 10 minutes on the 8.9-km of slippery roads in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">German Tony Martin, who opted for an early start to avoid intermittent rain, led the race for hours before bowing to the rider known as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSpartacus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Briton David Millar was third, 20 seconds off the pace, 10 years after his prologue win near the Futuroscope theme park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This victory really gets us going,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Cancellara who started &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-tour_pix_tv\" 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>* Swiss takes prologue ahead of German Tony Martin * Armstrong fourth, five seconds in front of Contador The Tour de France began on Saturday in a near carbon copy of last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edition, with the victory of Fabian Cancellara in the prologue and the promise of a showdown between Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong. [&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-33656","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\/33656","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=33656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33657,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33656\/revisions\/33657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}