{"id":9363,"date":"2009-04-16T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T19:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2009-04-16T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T19:25:50","slug":"cycling-road-lance-armstrong-confirmed-for-giro-despite-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9363","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Lance Armstrong confirmed for Giro despite surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong has told organizers that he will race in the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The announcement posted on the Gazzetta dello Sport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web site on Thursday removed doubts that the seven-time Tour de France champion would miss the race after having surgery on a broken right collarbone last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Gazzetta said the American contacted organizers Thursday from Colorado, where is currently training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Giro runs May 9-31.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The recovery has been going well and the plan is to be there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spokesman Mark Higgins wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-giro-armstrong&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong has told organizers that he will race in the Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia. The announcement posted on the Gazzetta dello Sport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web site on Thursday removed doubts that the seven-time Tour de France champion would miss the race after having surgery on a broken right collarbone last month. The Gazzetta said the American contacted organizers [&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-9363","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\/9363","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=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9364,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions\/9364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}