{"id":6144,"date":"2009-03-26T15:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2009-03-26T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:17:56","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-gets-a-lucky-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6144","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong gets a lucky break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After fracturing the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most famous right collarbone this week, Lance Armstrong said something pretty smart: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It could have been worse.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>A broken leg or torn knee tendon could really have derailed the comeback of the seven-time Tour de France champion. But broken collarbones? Gallic shrug. They happen all the time in cycling, where speed and jostling riders often turn races into demolition derbies.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask Stuart O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Grady, who has participated in 12 Tours. The Australian has only a hazy count of his collarbone fractures. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Six, seven times\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is his best guess, the most recent being at last weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Milan-San Remo race in Italy. For good measure, he fractured a rib and punctured a lung, too, but expects &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-johnleicester-260309&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=1129&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fracturing the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most famous right collarbone this week, Lance Armstrong said something pretty smart: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It could have been worse.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A broken leg or torn knee tendon could really have derailed the comeback of the seven-time Tour de France champion. But broken collarbones? Gallic shrug. They happen all the time in cycling, where speed [&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-6144","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\/6144","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=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6161,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions\/6161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}