I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.
Eddy Merckx
after winning his first bike race
Riccardo Ricco gives back his polka dots and heads home with the rest of the Saunier Duval team. What are these knuckleheads thinking? Ricco kept a picture of Marco Patani in his pocket so I guess it was only a matter of time. Read the NYT article.
Despite the unconscionable removal of Team Astana (and two members of last year's podium), the 2008 Tour de France is pretty exciting stuff. Christian Vande Velde looks strong enough to be on the podium, but he's got a lot of work to do in the next 2 days. Big mountains start tomorrow and L’Alpe d’Huez is set for Wednesday. Read the NYT article.
Before every Tour de France I usually watch this Nike commercial featuring Lance Armstrong training. This year I got behind and just now remembered to watch it. Man, it's such an inspiring video. It always makes me want to go ride, race trains, flock with birds (flock?). Anyway, I know I'm probably in the minority, but I'm still a Lance believer. I don't think he doped. Watch and be inspired.
Great article in Vanity Fair on this whole return of Lance business. Should be interesting…
The Tour de France marches on, even while doping still mares this year's race. Today they introduced route for 2009 and oh baby is it a hot one. Very different from previous tours and quite an interesting route and a very hard final week. I imagine there's going to be a lot of carnage on the way to Paris in 2009.
Read the rest of New Year, New Tour
