{"id":147,"date":"2003-07-26T19:10:27","date_gmt":"2003-07-26T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:17","slug":"good_news_and_drama_from_france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Good News and Drama From France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velonews.com\/tour2003\/details\/articles\/4697.0.html\" target=\"browser\">good<\/a> news for Joe&#8230;tomorrow, unless something incredible happens (and that&#8217;s not likely) Lance Armstrong will win his 5th consecutive Tour de France, and Tyler Hamilton will finish 4th, having ridden for three weeks on a broken collarbone.<\/p>\n<p>In the penultimate time trial (an individual race against the clock), his only potential challenger, German Jan Ullrich, crashed on a rainslick roundabout. Reading the live Internet feed as they started, it was obvious that at the starting ramp, Ullrich was anxious and Armstrong collected. Both raced at record-breaking speeds; they covered 49km in well under an hour.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a Tour full of crashes, drama, and exciting events, as well as magnificent athletic performances by all the participants. Lance said: &#8220;<i>We&#8217;re very lucky to be in a position like that. It was an eerie Tour. The mixture of physical problems, tactical errors and just bad luck, having crashes and near-crashes, it gives you mental stress and physical stress.<\/i>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Lance joins Miguel &#8220;Big Mig&#8221; Indurain as the only winner of five in a row, and no one &#8211; not even the great Merckx &#8211; has won more than five, period. See you all next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, unless something incredible happens (and that&#8217;s not likely) Lance Armstrong will win his 5th consecutive Tour de France, and Tyler Hamilton will finish 4th, having ridden for three weeks on a broken collarbone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}