{"id":741,"date":"2007-07-20T21:58:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T01:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/07\/20\/now-we-see-who-has-what-it-takes-in-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T02:08:07","slug":"now-we-see-who-has-what-it-takes-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/741","title":{"rendered":"Now we see who has what it takes in 2007&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium\u2019s Tom Boonen won the 12th leg today, and afterwards he hit the nail on the head. \u201cThe Tour\u2019s a horrible race,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to be masochistic to ride in a race like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With tomorrow\u2019s individual time trial and the coming mountain stages, we are likely to see the eventual winner emerge from top contenders to take the yellow jersey and attempt to keep it through the last time trial on July 28th. If he does, he will certainly ride into Paris for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>My prediction? Anything can happen at this point in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/07\/24\/a-memorable-year-for-the-most-awesome-annual-athletic-competition\/\">premier cycling event<\/a>, but I\u2019ll pin my hopes on Australia\u2019s Cadel Evans or Levi Leipheimer, now riding for the Discovery Channel team.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/12thstage.jpg' alt='12thStage.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium\u2019s Tom Boonen won the 12th leg today, and afterwards he hit the nail on the head. \u201cThe Tour\u2019s a horrible race,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to be masochistic to ride in a race like this.\u201d With tomorrow\u2019s individual time trial and the coming mountain stages, we are likely to see the eventual winner emerge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}