{"id":1181,"date":"2005-07-25T20:54:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/07\/lance_armstrong\/"},"modified":"2005-07-25T20:54:24","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:54:24","slug":"lance_armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/lance_armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So another fabulous tour ended, and Lance Armstrong retires from professional cycling with his <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/other_sports\/cycling\/4712583.stm\">7th consecutive win<\/a> in what is quite probably the toughest sporting event on the planet.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t his greatest win ever &#8211; he only won his first individual stage in Saturday&#8217;s time trial, and Basso stuck to him like glue in the mountains &#8211; but a win&#8217;s a win, and Armstrong bows out on top.<br \/>\nArmstrong&#8217;s may not be the greatest cyclist of all time, because he hasn&#8217;t really done a great deal outside the Tour, but don&#8217;t let that stop us marvelling at this incredible achievement.<br \/>\nAnd full marks, once again, to ITV2 and their coverage of the tour produced by Brian Venner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venner.tv\">VTV<\/a> with the usual complications of having Gary Imlach and Chris Boardman present UK coverage, while we share Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin with international broadcasters in the US and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So another fabulous tour ended, and Lance Armstrong retires from professional cycling with his 7th consecutive win in what is quite probably the toughest sporting event on the planet. It wasn&#8217;t his greatest win ever &#8211; he only won his first individual stage in Saturday&#8217;s time trial, and Basso stuck to him like glue in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}