{"id":11881,"date":"2013-12-23T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tour-de-france-champ-froome-re-signs-with-team-sky\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:19:00","slug":"tour-de-france-champ-froome-re-signs-with-team-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tour-de-france-champ-froome-re-signs-with-team-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France champ Froome re-signs with Team Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tour de France champion Christopher Froome has signed a contract extension with Team Sky.<\/p>\n<p>Froome became the second British rider to win cycling&#8217;s most prestigious event last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been an incredible year for me and I&#8217;m delighted to finish it off by signing a new contract with Team Sky,&#8221; said Froome in a statement on the team&#8217;s website Monday. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been with this team since the start and I know this is the right place for me to continue to grow as a rider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s impossible to win races without the right team beside you so I&#8217;d like to thank everyone at the team for their continued support. It&#8217;s an honor to be a Team Sky rider and I hope to play a big part of its success for years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nine other Team Sky riders agreed to new contracts on Monday, including Peter Kennaugh, David Lopez and Ian Stannard &#8212; all Tour de France riders from 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tour de France champion Christopher Froome has signed a contract extension with Team Sky. Froome became the second British rider to win cycling&#8217;s most prestigious event last year. &#8220;This has been an incredible year for me and I&#8217;m delighted to finish it off by signing a new contract with Team Sky,&#8221; said Froome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}