{"id":65829,"date":"2012-06-22T19:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65829"},"modified":"2012-06-22T19:24:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T02:24:33","slug":"cycling-armstrong-usada-investigators-violating-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65829","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Armstrong: USADA investigators violating rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong filed a scathing response Friday to the latest doping allegations against him, accusing the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of violating its own rules and possibly breaking federal law during its investigation.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_25_1340418153573_256\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The agency said Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs and other improper methods to win cycling&#8217;s premiere event, the Tour de France, from 1999-2005. Friday was the deadline for Armstrong to respond to USADA&#8217;s warning that charges were pending before his case moves to the next stage.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_25_1340418153573_354\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong, who denies doping and notes he has never failed a drug test\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/armstrong-usada-investigators-violating-rules-205255989--spt.html\" 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>Lance Armstrong filed a scathing response Friday to the latest doping allegations against him, accusing the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of violating its own rules and possibly breaking federal law during its investigation. The agency said Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs and other improper methods to win cycling&#8217;s premiere event, the Tour de France, from 1999-2005. Friday [&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-65829","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\/65829","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=65829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65831,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65829\/revisions\/65831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}