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More thoughts on Floyd's allegations

I’ve read a lot of articles today, and done a lot of thinking, and here is what I’ve decided.

I’m sure that there’s a lot of truth in Floyd Landis’s confession today, and I’m just as sure that there’s a lot of truth in his accusations as well … but I also think that the [...]

Let the doping stories begin!

Doping-Tour de France riders face intensive testing – Cycling – Yahoo Sports

PARIS, June 10 Reuters – This year’s Tour de France will be the most scrutinised sports event ever by anti-doping authorities, International Cycling Union UCI president Pat McQuaid said on Wednesday.

More than 500 tests will be carried out during the world’s greatest [...]

Lance Armstrong Ponders Buying the Tour de France

Yeah … this one isn’t an April Fool’s joke … from the Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2009.

Lance Armstrong Ponders Buying the Tour de France in Bid to Run Pro Cycling – WSJ.com

Lance’s Plan for France — Off the Bike Seeking to Overhaul Cycling, Armstrong Played a Part in Talks to Buy the [...]

Tour de France to welcome dopers!

l’Équipe – Tour de France to welcome doping scandals

(AF: PARIS, 01/04/2009) In a move that stunned the racing community, the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), promoters of the Tour de France announced today that the 2009 Tour de France will be cancelled unless there is an immediate and large-scale doping scandal.

Christian Prudhomme, Director of [...]

Round Two

As I noted a couple posts ago, I have officially become a propagandist, by posting and helping to share the Keating Economics documentary video, which goes into John McCain’s connections to Charles Keating, Jr., and the failed savings and loan crisis of the early 1990s.

The fight between the two candidates is getting nasty, with [...]

Leading Men

LEADING MEN

Can an American team that aims to compete clean help put cycling on the right road?

BOULDER, Colo. — Conditions are cramped in the modest bedroom with burgundy carpeting and busy floral wallpaper at the Boulderado Hotel.

A small antique-style desk has been cleared off and covered with a clean towel, syringes, vials, [...]

Dopers-R-Us

Ball signs Sevilla, invites Landis to camp Rubber has yet to hit the road in ’08, but second-year continental road team Rock Racing continues to generate considerable attention, this time because of reports that owner Michael Ball has been courting Floyd Landis to fill an unspecified team advisory position.

Word of the deposed 2006 Tour [...]