Good heavens. With the amount of bloviating going on over the Tour this year, you'd think the world was going to end if anyone who ever touched an illegal substance won the race.
As if TdF winners haven't been using illegal drugs back into the 1950s, from amphetamines to blood doping to steroids to EPO. The Tour winners have a lot in common with Barry Bonds: they were great riders to start out with, then they doped to get even better.
That's not to say that Michael Rasmussen doped. I don't know whether he did or not. All I know is that, in an era when people have Blackberrys, wireless Internet, cell phones, etc., it seems unbelievable to me that he wouldn't have kept in touch with the cycling doping agencies unless he wanted to hide out. And the only reason for wanting to hide out is to let the drugs pass through your system before you get tested.
Right now I'm thrilled to see that Discovery Channel has two of the top three riders in the race. We'll see how it goes at the time trial tomorrow.
Friday, July 27, 2007
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