{"id":716548,"date":"2026-06-05T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:05:24","slug":"tucson-cycling-legend-andy-bishop-dies-at-home-in-new-hampshire-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716548\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson cycling legend Andy Bishop dies at home in New Hampshire | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The cycling community is remembering former professional rider from Tucson, Andy Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Bicycle Racing Association posted a tribute, calling him &#8220;a legend on and off the bike.&#8221; Bishop was one of the first riders from Tucson to break into professional cycling.<\/p>\n<p>He competed in the Tour de France three times and won the 1995 Herald Sun Tour in Australia. In a message, his family said he died peacefully early Tuesday morning in New Hampshire, surrounded by loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>They say an obituary and celebration of life are being planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The cycling community is remembering former professional rider from Tucson, Andy Bishop. The Arizona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,1337,44,82],"class_list":["post-716548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-local","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}