{"id":141,"date":"2005-07-05T22:08:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T22:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/le_tour_de_fran\/"},"modified":"2005-07-05T22:08:44","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T22:08:44","slug":"le_tour_de_fran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/le-tour\/le_tour_de_fran\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de France 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grahamwatson.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ladisc05\" title=\"Ladisc05\" src=\"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/ladisc05.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this what July is all about? It feels strange to think this is the last time we&#8217;ll see the Texan Lance Armstrong racing his beloved Tour de France. I had a few doubts before the opening time trail, but as the big guy devoured Ullrich putting him already a minute behind in the GC so early on, well I don&#8217;t know how I thought it would be any different. There was a great weekend of cycling on TV, including the obligatory Discovery Channel documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/convergence\/chasing_7\/scioflance.html\">The Science of Lance Armstrong<\/a> and documentaries on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\/documentaries\/storyville\/sunday-in-hell.shtml\">BBC Four<\/a> about Paris-Roubaix and Tommy Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>Tough luck for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davezabriskie.com\/pages\/1\/index.htm\">David Zabriskie<\/a> who crashed out in the final few kilometres of the Team Time Trial. After holding the yellow jersey for a couple of days, and the first Team CSC rider to do so, an error caused him to his the barriers and was left behind by his team. Its a real shame, he seems a likeable guy, good sense of humour and a bit of a character, in any case, he&#8217;s a prospect for the future and it won&#8217;t be the last we&#8217;ve seen of him.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdfblog.com\">TDF Blog<\/a> and photos above always stunning and beautiful from <a href=\"http:\/\/grahamwatson.com\/\">Graham Watson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this what July is all about? It feels strange to think this is the last time we&#8217;ll see the Texan Lance Armstrong racing his beloved Tour de France. I had a few doubts before the opening time trail, but as the big guy devoured Ullrich putting him already a minute behind in the GC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}