{"id":4863,"date":"2009-07-10T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/tour-de-france-betting-contador-armstrong-chasing-nocentini\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T22:19:00","slug":"tour-de-france-betting-contador-armstrong-chasing-nocentini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/tour-de-france-betting-contador-armstrong-chasing-nocentini\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Betting &#8211; Contador, Armstrong Chasing Nocentini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/ufc-100-fight-card\/\" title=\"UFC 100 fight card\"><span class=SpellE>UFC<\/span> 100 fight card<\/a>&nbsp;will be on the minds of many sportsbook betting players this weekend, you can&#8217;t forget about Tour de France betting as cycling&#8217;s biggest event heads into its eighth stage on Saturday. The <\/span><\/font><st1:place>Pyrenees<\/st1:place> is often the place in the event where the best <span class=SpellE>seperate<\/span> themselves, and heading into it, Alberto <span class=SpellE>Contador<\/span> and Lance Armstrong will try and track down <span class=SpellE>Rinaldo<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Nocentini<\/span>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Brice <span class=SpellE>Feilli<\/span> won the seventh stage, and the first mountain stage in the competition, while previous leader Fabian <span class=SpellE>Cancellara<\/span> finished the race just over nine minutes after <span class=SpellE>Feillu<\/span> to drop out of the top spot. <span class=SpellE>Nocentini<\/span> picked up the yellow jersey and he leads <span class=SpellE>Contador<\/span> by six seconds, and Armstrong by eight. <span class=SpellE>Contador<\/span> was actually two seconds behind <span class=SpellE>Armstron<\/span> before the stage began, but a late push for the finish line allowed him to leapfrog his teammate. Much <span class=SpellE>ahas<\/span> been made about whether these two rivals could work together on the same team, and Armstrong didn&#8217;t force the issue when <span class=SpellE>Contador<\/span> broke away, staying just close enough to still be a threat according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payperhead.com\" title=\"gambling software\">gambling software<\/a>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The seventh stage is actually the longest on the course this year, while Sunday&#8217;s ride is one of the shortest, but it&#8217;s all mountains, which shows you who the best conditioned rides are. This is where we expect <span class=SpellE>Contador<\/span>, Armstrong and the rest of the Astana team to put a gap between them and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/tour-de-france-betting-1183.aspx\" title=\"Tour de France betting\">Tour de France betting<\/a>&nbsp;pack. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the UFC 100 fight card&nbsp;will be on the minds of many sportsbook betting players this weekend, you can&#8217;t forget about Tour de France betting as cycling&#8217;s biggest event heads into its eighth stage on Saturday. The Pyrenees is often the place in the event where the best seperate themselves, and heading into it, Alberto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/tour-de-france-betting-contador-armstrong-chasing-nocentini\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tour de France Betting &#8211; Contador, Armstrong Chasing Nocentini<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}