Bikes and Drugs
I’m glad CyclingNews saved me from having to do this. Yes, the wife makes fun of me for being suspicious of southern Europe, but… but…
And way to go GB! Punching above your weight and out of your class. Bradley Wiggins is a tosser. St. Millar? Garmin does alright (first non-French, to turn an ironic phrase), but would have done better without their part owner. A little disappointed by Tyler (F. not H., this is 2010) and very by CVV. If you’d told me that Lance & Levi would be in the same 0-10 group as Christian and Cadel I probably would have called you a tosser, too. It is me doing the tossing, I guess. Everyone dopes, get used to it.
BUT THEN! Jens, Andy, Fabian! So, yes, technically anything > 1 is suspicious, but it’s hard to not give a little slack to the 2s, which means that most of lEHoPARD-T, most of the guys that everyone loves (Stuey! again: Jens!), keep on being loved. Think about this: no one understood why Matti & Nicki didn’t make the jump… could it really be really true? Really?
Big George’s irrelevance extends to the level where he doesn’t even cheat anymore, just shows up. Maybe it was all Lance making him do it. A boy can dream.
And French housewives can continue dreaming about Sylvan & little Tommy V. And on July 14th so can I.
Ok, enough dreaming. I know that this isn’t the true/false list we’ve all been looking for lo these many years. But it’s not like the list isn’t made for reading into. L’Equipe highlighted the Frenchies to show that they averaged right. It’s born of politics, released on the eve of the (A)TOC in order to embarrass the UCI to the betterment of ASO. If you wrote this plot people would call you lame. It’s the soap opera that is professional cycling, and I don’t think there’s anyone left paying attention after these long last 13 years that can’t handle it.
Bradley Wiggins is a tosser.