{"id":4069,"date":"2009-03-17T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2009-03-17T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:00:04","slug":"cycling-road-former-saunier-duval-team-not-in-2009-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4069","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Former Saunier Duval team not in 2009 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty teams will compete at this summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France, with Lance Armstrong returning to the race he won seven times and the former Saunier Duval-Scott team excluded from cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premier event.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong is riding with Astana in a comeback bid after 3 1\/2 years of retirement. Ivan Basso, who served a doping ban, could also make his return to the Tour with Liquigas.<\/p>\n<p>France will enter five teams, the only country with more than two. The two U.S. teams are&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-tourdefrance-teams&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty teams will compete at this summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tour de France, with Lance Armstrong returning to the race he won seven times and the former Saunier Duval-Scott team excluded from cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premier event. Armstrong is riding with Astana in a comeback bid after 3 1\/2 years of retirement. Ivan Basso, who served a doping ban, could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","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\/4069","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=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}