By frank booth 29 July 2006
I’ve conferred with my resident medical expert and have learned two salient facts regarding the pending B test of Landis’s urine. First, alcohol is rapidly metabolized in the human body; it’s metabolized essentially first. So all the talk about testing Landis’s sample for alcohol is bullshit. If he still had alcohol in his urine after […]
By frank booth 23 July 2006
I won’t get credit for it because just after writing the title “Floyd Landis Must Attack” for a post I never published, Booth fils insisted that I stop thinking about the “Turtle France” and play with him. So instead I’ll say that I’m not surprised Floyd attacked. He never looked under pressure and was clearly […]
By fausto 21 July 2006
The past three days of the Tour have been the most exciting I have seen since the last really epic Tour of 1987. Since then, there have been great Tours, such as Lance’s first and unexpected victory in 1999, and his dominating follow up in 2000, as well as the famous first-stage-mistake-Tour of 1990. But […]
By frank booth 18 July 2006
Voigt, Zubriskie, Merckx, Rasmussen.
Quel etage!
If you were to name the major teams over the past several seasons, all of them came out to play today except Discovery. The implosion there suggests that they still have recovered from Lance’s departure. Morale is obviously quite low. Meanwhile, the other well-drilled teams each put into play classic strategy. […]
By fausto 16 July 2006
Now we get into the terrain Velo la Source knows best, starting with the Col d’Izoard, which as Frank pointed out, we like to call “Cold-And-It’s-So-Hard,” thought recent temperatures might negate the first part of that nick-name. The climb from Embrun through Guillestre and up through the Casse Deserte (past the Coppi-Bartoli memorial) is just […]
By frank booth 16 July 2006
I will get to my theory of how Floyd Landis should ride the Alps but first a brief vent about George Hincapie. There is a photo on cyclingnews.com of big George. The caption reads, “Hincapie tried to get in an early break but failed.” A cursory look at the picture shows Commesso also in the […]
By fausto 15 July 2006
After the first ITT:
2 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 1.00.62
23 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne-Illes Balears 2.40.92
After today’s breakaway:
1 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne-Illes Balears 59.50.34
2 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 1.29
By frank booth 14 July 2006
This is Frank. I have had several martinis.
Today was a yin and yang day for discovery. Il Falco and Noval drop out; Popo proves he’s a hard man and takes Bruyneel’s tongue-lashing to heart and gets in the right break.
The finale was classic cycling. My favorite part was watching Freire give second place to Ballan. […]
By fausto 13 July 2006
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 […]
By frank booth 13 July 2006
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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