{"id":9472,"date":"2009-04-17T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9472"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:09:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:09:55","slug":"cycling-raod-hamilton-says-hes-retiring-from-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9472","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Hamilton says he&#8217;s retiring from cycling &#8211; steroid DHEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">American cyclist Tyler Hamilton will hold a teleconference Friday to announce he is retiring after testing positive for the steroid DHEA, which he said he knowingly ingested in an over-the-counter herbal antidepressant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was the second doping offense for the veteran rider, who tested positive for homologous blood transfusion in 2004 and served a mandatory two-year suspension even as he disputed the test results through two rounds of arbitration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hamilton likely would face a suspension of eight years to life for his second offense&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/oly\/cycling\/news\/story?id=4075873&amp;campaign=rss&amp;source=ESPNHeadlines\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American cyclist Tyler Hamilton will hold a teleconference Friday to announce he is retiring after testing positive for the steroid DHEA, which he said he knowingly ingested in an over-the-counter herbal antidepressant. It was the second doping offense for the veteran rider, who tested positive for homologous blood transfusion in 2004 and served a mandatory [&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-9472","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\/9472","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=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9476,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions\/9476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}