{"id":3866,"date":"2006-07-23T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T03:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/07\/23\/tdf-wrap-up-landis-has-em-where-he-wants-em\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:00:52","slug":"tdf-wrap-up-landis-has-em-where-he-wants-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/07\/23\/tdf-wrap-up-landis-has-em-where-he-wants-em\/","title":{"rendered":"TDF Wrap-up: Landis has &#8217;em where he wants &#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to see watch the final stage this morning but I just finished watching the re-broadcast. I was struck by the apparent respect and even affection of the other riders for Floyd Landis. It was different with Lance Armstrong, who was respected to be sure, but also feared.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong was an intimidating presence; Landis is viewed as a regular guy who rides his heart out, and is much more approachable.<\/p>\n<p>The next big question is his future in professional cycling, given that he may well be facing hip replacement very soon. I theorized that this might have been his last professional race, but I started thinking about some American cycling history. Greg Lemond won a TDF after he was blasted in the back with a shotgun in a hunting accident. Lance started reeling off wins following a life-threatening bout with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s American in origin, but we&#8217;re fond of saying that what doesn&#8217;t kill you will make you stronger. It may well be, then, that putting a titanium hip into Floyd Landis&#8217;s body is about the worst thing that could happen&#8230;to the rest of the Tour de France peloton.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already looking forward to 2007!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Landis&#8217;s hip replacement may be the worst possible news for his competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-pro-college-hs","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8752,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}