{"id":33951,"date":"2010-07-12T06:23:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=33951"},"modified":"2010-07-12T06:23:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:23:31","slug":"cycling-armstrong-obviously-the-tour-is-finished-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=33951","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Armstrong: Obviously, the Tour is finished for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are two days in every great athlete\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comeback that somehow still catch us by surprise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The day he announces it. And the day that removes any lingering doubts whether it was a good idea in the first place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong suffered through one of the latter Sunday at the Tour de France. His comeback isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t officially over; the race still has two weeks left to run. But Armstrong would need a handful of younger, fitter rivals to all take a wrong turn\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthen stay lost for nearly 15 minutes\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust to make up the ground he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already lost\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-jimlitke-071210\" 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>There are two days in every great athlete\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comeback that somehow still catch us by surprise. The day he announces it. And the day that removes any lingering doubts whether it was a good idea in the first place. Lance Armstrong suffered through one of the latter Sunday at the Tour de France. His comeback [&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-33951","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\/33951","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=33951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33952,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951\/revisions\/33952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}