{"id":8634,"date":"2009-04-10T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T22:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2009-04-10T15:40:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T22:40:35","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-fears-he-will-be-barred-from-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8634","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong fears he will be barred from Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said on Friday the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) could prevent him from riding in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a very high likelihood they will prohibit me from riding on the Tour,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the 37-year-old American said in a video aired on his fight-against-cancer foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website (www.livestrong.com).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The AFLD said on Thursday Armstrong could face disciplinary action because he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153did not respect the obligation to stay under (the) direct and permanent observation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of a drugs tester who came to his southern France residence last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong said he went to shower while Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel was checking the tester\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s credentials with the International Cycling Union (UCI).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He (the tester) was odd, he was alone. He seemed suspicious,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Armstrong&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-armstrongtour&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said on Friday the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) could prevent him from riding in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a very high likelihood they will prohibit me from riding on the Tour,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the 37-year-old American said in a video aired on his fight-against-cancer foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website (www.livestrong.com). The AFLD [&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-8634","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\/8634","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=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8635,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions\/8635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}