{"id":204,"date":"2004-07-07T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/armstrong_in_ye\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:42:57","slug":"armstrong_in_ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/le-tour\/armstrong_in_ye\/","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong in Yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the hustle and bustle of the opening days, including a great time trial victory for the young swiss rider <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.sports.yahoo.com\/cyclisme\/profiles\/8763.html\">Fabian Cancellara <\/a>, who broke down in tears when Armstrong crossed over a second behind; a couple of sprints more notable for the absence on the podium of Alessandro Petacchi; and after the drama of Iban Mayo falling on the cobblestones amid the dust and mayhem usually enjoyed by the Paris-Roubaix&#8230;after all of that, we have Lance Armstrong in yellow and some of his rivals a long way off the classification. Really, I forgot this wasn&#8217;t just any bike race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdfblog.com\/\">The Tour de France Blog<\/a> is back for another year, with all the news from the race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/other_sports\/cycling\/default.stm\">BBC Sport<\/a> providing some beautiful photos &#8211; especially of stage 3 on the cobbles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grahamwatson.com\/\">Graham Watson<\/a> has been covering the tour since 1977 and takes some amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/grahamwatson.com\/gw\/imagedocs.nsf\/updateframesetcall?openform&#038;04tourSt3\">photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the hustle and bustle of the opening days, including a great time trial victory for the young swiss rider Fabian Cancellara , who broke down in tears when Armstrong crossed over a second behind; a couple of sprints more notable for the absence on the podium of Alessandro Petacchi; and after the drama of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}