{"id":573839,"date":"2010-05-21T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T06:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=11790"},"modified":"2010-05-21T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T06:01:13","slug":"lance-armstrong-crash-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/573839","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong Crash Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biking champion <strong>Lance Armstrong <\/strong>crashed today during the Tour of California cycling race Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bilde2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bilde2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>During the race, a rider in the main group skidded on some gravel and fell, causing others, including 7-time Tour De France champion, Lance Armstrong to crash.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong was evaluated by Race doctor Ramin Modabber and Team doctor Dag Van Elslande in the Team bus. Armstrong suffered an inch-long gash below his left eye and a severe bruise on his left elbow. Doctors have administered eight stitches below his left eye. Then, Armstrong was taken to Bakersfield Memorial Hospital for precautionary X-rays. He is negative for broken bones.<\/p>\n<p>There were allegations that Lance Armstrong was doping before the crash happened. But he denied the accusations. Armstong was disappointed for not finishing the race. He even tried to resume riding but soon gave up due to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a shame to have to abandon early and not be able to help Levi to another victory,&#8221; Armstrong said in a statement. &#8220;It was one of those crashes that put a bunch of us down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/sports\/2010\/lance-armstrong-accident-in-amgen-tour-of-california\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Lance Armstrong accident in Amgen Tour of California'>Lance Armstrong accident in Amgen Tour of California<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/general\/2010\/landis-drags-armstrong-on-ped-confession\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Landis Drags Armstrong On PED Confession'>Landis Drags Armstrong On PED Confession<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/sports\/2010\/greg-lemonds-side-on-landis-vs-armstrong\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Greg LeMond&#8217;s Side on Landis vs Armstrong'>Greg LeMond&#8217;s Side on Landis vs Armstrong<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/L9Ws0SxZVBE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biking champion Lance Armstrong crashed today during the Tour of California cycling race Thursday. During the race, a rider in the main group skidded on some gravel and fell, causing others, including 7-time Tour De France champion, Lance Armstrong to crash. Armstrong was evaluated by Race doctor Ramin Modabber and Team doctor Dag Van Elslande [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}