{"id":18609,"date":"2013-03-07T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/a-decade-of-doping-for-dutch-tour-de-france-star\/"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:41:33","slug":"a-decade-of-doping-for-dutch-tour-de-france-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/a-decade-of-doping-for-dutch-tour-de-france-star\/","title":{"rendered":"A decade of doping for Dutch Tour de France star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Tour de France cyclist Michael Boogerd, from the Netherlands, has admitted using performance enhancing drugs for a decade in an interview aired on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old, who won two stages of the Tour de France in 1996 and 2002, admitted using the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO), cortisone, as well as receiving blood transfusions.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman is the eighth cyclist from the former Rabobank team to admit doping, state broadcaster NOS said ahead of the interview being shown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was for periods, mostly during training, in preparation for competitions. I also rode the Tour de France often enough clean,\u201d Boogerd told NOS. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/sport\/other-sport\/former-tour-de-france-rider-michael-boogerd-admits-doping-for-a-decade\">thenational<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Tour de France cyclist Michael Boogerd, from the Netherlands, has admitted using performance enhancing drugs for a decade in an interview aired on Wednesday. The 40-year-old, who won two stages of the Tour de France in 1996 and 2002, admitted using the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO), cortisone, as well as receiving blood transfusions. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}