{"id":4817,"date":"2009-03-17T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2009-03-17T23:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T06:01:37","slug":"cycling-mt-bike-cycling-legend-officially-enters-2009-leadville-100-for-epic-rematch-with-david-wiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Mt. Bike Road Bike &#8211; Cycling legend officially enters 2009 Leadville 100 for epic rematch with David Wiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4818\" title=\"armstrong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/armstrong.jpg\" alt=\"armstrong\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/armstrong.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/armstrong-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When soon-to-be-the-king David slayed Goliath in 1 Samuel of the Old Testament, the people of Israel didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Great job David, but would you mind doing that again next year?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being asked of Gunnison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s David Wiens this summer in the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race, as seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has officially entered the field for the second straight year.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Wiens needed a course-record time of 6:45:45 to nip the cycling legend \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who was still \u00e2\u20ac\u0153retired\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the time \u00e2\u20ac\u201d by a mere 2 minutes&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/article\/20090317\/SPORTS\/903179956\/1078&amp;ParentProfile=1055&amp;title=Armstrong%20back%20for%20Round%202\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.tricities.com\/tri\/news\/local\/article\/nascar_takes_steps_to_improve_racing_experience_for_fans_despite_bad_econom\/21825\/<\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When soon-to-be-the-king David slayed Goliath in 1 Samuel of the Old Testament, the people of Israel didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Great job David, but would you mind doing that again next year?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Well, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being asked of Gunnison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s David Wiens this summer in the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race, as seven-time Tour de France winner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","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=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}