{"id":5137,"date":"2009-03-19T18:18:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T01:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2009-03-19T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T01:20:48","slug":"cycling-road-bike-sprint-specialists-favored-for-milan-san-remo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road Bike &#8211; Sprint specialists favored for Milan-San Remo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong will likely take it easy in Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Milan-San Remo classic, while Italian favorites Alessandro Petacchi and Daniele Bennati will face challenges from Tom Boonen and Thor Hushovd.<\/p>\n<p>The race will be Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first in Europe since winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France in 2005. After 3 1\/2 years of retirement, Armstrong returned at the start of this season, finishing 29th in the Tour Down Under in Australia and seventh in the Tour of California.<\/p>\n<p>Before retiring, Armstrong raced the Milan-San Remo six times and never won.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe 100th anniversary edition\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmeasures 185 miles, making it the longest of the single-day classics&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-milan-sanremo&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>Lance Armstrong will likely take it easy in Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Milan-San Remo classic, while Italian favorites Alessandro Petacchi and Daniele Bennati will face challenges from Tom Boonen and Thor Hushovd. The race will be Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first in Europe since winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France in 2005. After 3 1\/2 years of retirement, Armstrong returned [&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-5137","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\/5137","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=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5141,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}