{"id":1057,"date":"2008-07-26T23:10:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T03:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2008-07-26T23:10:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T03:10:54","slug":"paul-kimmage-back-from-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/26\/paul-kimmage-back-from-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage: Back from the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kimmage, knowledgeable (and frequent) critic of pro cycling, wrote a column that&#8217;s a must-read for any pro cycling\/Tour de France fan.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/sport\/more_sport\/cycling\/article4407072.ece\">It starts with<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one thing professional cyclists have always been more proficient at than racing bikes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s telling lies. From Richard Virenque to Bjarne Riis to Tyler Hamilton, the angel-faced maestro of deceit, the sport has fostered some of the finest liars in history. So a year ago, when Jonathan Vaughters began making headlines for his innovative plans at Slipstream, the new antidoping team hoping to ride the Tour de France, it was hard not to snigger. Did he seriously expect us to believe him?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then he takes us through his efforts to answer that question.\u00c2\u00a0 Well worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kimmage, knowledgeable (and frequent) critic of pro cycling, wrote a column that&#8217;s a must-read for any pro cycling\/Tour de France fan.\u00c2\u00a0 It starts with: If there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one thing professional cyclists have always been more proficient at than racing bikes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s telling lies. From Richard Virenque to Bjarne Riis to Tyler Hamilton, the angel-faced maestro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}