Tour de France

[tbrown 26]

Nope, now that the one nutted wonder is gone it's just a bunch of silly Frenchman out for a ride in their undies.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

[Icon134 0]

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Nope, now that the one nutted wonder is gone it's just a bunch of silly Frenchman out for a ride in their undies.

Yeah except the top dog is american...

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[kelpdiver 2]

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So did you eat these words yet?

Lets see, Kloden beat Sastre off the podium by 1'45" because he took 4'40" off him in the 2 TTs. Pereiro is in 2nd after losing half an hour in the pyrennees, Floyd Landis is 59" ahead of Pereiro because he took 3' off him in the TTs.

people lost 1-5 minutes in the time trials. They lost 10-20 minutes at a time in the mountains. See Hincapie. Pereiro got a gift, but he showed he could climb in the alps, and better than most, hence he stayed at 2nd.

[BillyVance 35]

Has this sport become the dirtiest and most-abused in the world as far as steriods and blood-doping is concerned?

Vino is gone, and his team withdrew. Then another racer got busted today.

When are these idiots going to learn?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[jakee 1,599]

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Has this sport become the dirtiest and most-abused in the world as far as steriods and blood-doping is concerned?

Don't worry, there's always gonna be American Football to fight for the top step of that podium.

But yeah, doping and cycling. In some ways it is the nature of the beast. Professional cycling is an incredibly demanding sport, and the Tour de france in particular is without doubt the toughest mainstream sporting event in the world. The top riders are literally superhuman. Miguel Indurain reportedly had a heart 50% larger than the average and a resting pulse rate that would make most hospitals think he was clinically dead. So with that background you can see why doping has been such an attractive option for the riders.

However (and feel free to call me naive and optimistic here) I think that things are getting a lot better. The fact that Astana and Cofidis have withdrawn after Vino and Moreni tested positive shows the way that things are moving in the right direction. I do believe that the dark days of the 1990's, with systematic team sponsored doping are behind us now in professional cycling. With the constant improvements in doping tests it is now far too great a risk for a team to take, knowing that their entire tour will be ruined with only one rider getting caught.

So it may sound like an extremely strange thing to say, but with each succesive bust Cycling might just be putting itself into a stronger position for the future. The complacency of last decade put cycling into the seemingly bleak situation it is now in, put the tough approach that is now being taken will hopefully ensure that it does get better. It's going to be a rough ride though...

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[pinkfairy 0]

Well, nothing else on TV, unless you count old soaps.

But I prefer the sound off. and doing something else at the same time.

Relax, you can die if you mess up, but it will probably not be by bullet.

I'm a BIG, TOUGH BIGWAY FORMATION SKYDIVER! What are you?

[BillyVance 35]

Dayum! Race leader Rasmussen has been kicked off the tour and sent home!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[peanut4040 0]

skkydivers have drugs for the head, and bicyclist have drugs for the body..

society says we are both wrong.

HEMMMM HEMMMM PUCK HEMMMMM

Its a good day to LIVE, why puck up a good thing.

There is no reply in aad section for. " hell no i would not put an AAD on my back"

[JustChuteMeNow 0]

Yeah that was quite the surprise and even more surprising was that it wasn't the French but his team mates who kicked him off the tour.

I thought he had a great stage win today and it looked like he had the race wrapped up. I guess he truly was convicted by his peers. Like you so eleoquently put it ....Dayum!

Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that statistically half of them are stupider than that.

[Frenchy68 0]

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Has this sport become the dirtiest and most-abused in the world as far as steriods and blood-doping is concerned?

To the sport's credit, it probably has the most drastic rules against doping, hence the higher probability that someone gets busted. If such rules were to apply to many other professional sports, people would fall like flies as well. This said, I hope this year is the height of the therapy, and that the Tour can somewhat come back clean (or cleaner) next year. It is one of the greatest, most demanding sporting event in the world, and deserves to be around for a long time.

"For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

[virgin-burner 1]

i dont believe this..

remember the year where they had police-busts everywhere?

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda

[jakee 1,599]

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i dont believe this..

remember the year where they had police-busts everywhere?

1998.

That was really a watershed moment in fighting against drugs in cycling, I think.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?