{"id":681429,"date":"2026-07-09T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681429\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:27:09","slug":"my-return-to-scene-of-lance-armstrongs-great-2001-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681429\/","title":{"rendered":"My return to scene of Lance Armstrong\u2019s great 2001 \u2018performance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"300\"   width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/methode\/times\/prod\/web\/bin\/c8b98f91-1de3-46e4-a3b8-be2e2f29c81c.png\" alt=\"Lance Armstrong speaking to the press while wearing a US Postal Service team shirt.\" class=\"wp-image-23510713\"\/>Armstrong in Pau on the day he faced Walsh\u2019s questions Shutterstock Editorial<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\ttour de france | david walsh\t<\/p>\n<p>\tDutch rider Olav Kooij sprints to victory in Pau, but his display was nothing compared with masterclass in deception by American when he pleaded his innocence here<\/p>\n<p>\t\tWednesday July 08 2026, 10.05pm BST, The Times\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armstrong in Pau on the day he faced Walsh\u2019s questions Shutterstock Editorial tour de france | david walsh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}