i hate to have every post be about doping, or have a subtext about doping, but frank is correct: there was something subdued about today’s stage that, to be quite honest, i rather enjoyed. good riders who were not ready for six hours of relentless climbing got dropped (hincapie, mayo, horner, zabriskie). riders who rely […]
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Yesterday’s stage confirmed my suspicion that this year’s tour will be reminiscent of 1998. Scared straight by Operation Puerto, the Peloton flushed their drugs down the toilet the night before the race…and now everyone suddenly seems human. There won’t be any solo breakaways across the pyranees by a cyclist with a broken shoulder riding on […]
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i didn’t get a chance to say it before the tour started, but i’m excited about this tour. i love lance armstrong, but enough is enough. when lance won stages 15-17 in 2004, i started losing interest in “le tour de lance.” who am i to say, but how can anyone really claim that lance […]
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