{"id":43572,"date":"2011-01-26T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T23:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43572"},"modified":"2011-01-26T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T23:48:31","slug":"cycling-alberto-contador-faces-a-year-out-of-the-sport-and-the-loss-of-his-2010-tour-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43572","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Alberto Contador faces a year out of the sport and the loss of his 2010 Tour title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Triple Tour de France champion Alberto Contador had the potential to rival seven-times winner Lance Armstrong as a cyclist who grew bigger than his sport.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, after a six-month investigation into a failed doping test, the Spaniard faces a year out of the sport and the loss of his 2010 Tour title.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contador confirmed on Wednesday that the Spanish cycling federation (RFEC) had proposed banning him for a year and left him 10 days to appeal.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspension could seriously harm, if not end, the 28-year-old\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-contadorprofile_refile\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Triple Tour de France champion Alberto Contador had the potential to rival seven-times winner Lance Armstrong as a cyclist who grew bigger than his sport.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, after a six-month investigation into a failed doping test, the Spaniard faces a year out of the sport and the loss of his 2010 Tour title.\u00c2\u00a0 Contador confirmed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43572","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\/43572","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=43572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43574,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions\/43574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}