{"id":9356,"date":"2009-04-16T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2009-04-16T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:55:47","slug":"cycling-road-kazakh-federation-to-resume-paying-astana-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9356","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Kazakh federation to resume paying Astana wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kazakhstan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cycling federation said Thursday it will resume paying salaries to Lance Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Astana team now that it has received money owed by its sponsors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Astana cyclists, including Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia winner Alberto Contador, have not received salaries for around a month, prompting fears the team could be disbanded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We started receiving the first payments yesterday \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and now that money will be forwarded to the team,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kazakh Cycling Federation deputy chief Nikolai Proskurin told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Astana receives most of its financial support from &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-astana-wages&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cycling federation said Thursday it will resume paying salaries to Lance Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Astana team now that it has received money owed by its sponsors. Astana cyclists, including Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia winner Alberto Contador, have not received salaries for around a month, prompting fears the team could be disbanded. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We started receiving the first payments yesterday [&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-9356","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\/9356","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=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}