all hail the shag

The French Anti-Doping Agency, AFLD, is again embarrassing itself and distracting the cycling world from racing and and clean sport. Why? Because Lance is back and he “insulted” the French authority (but apparently not the tester himself).

My take is that although Lance may have violated a rule about staying in sight once a test is requested the tester didn’t object and the guy was from the lab, the whole dust-up is more about trying to discredit Lance again sell more newspapers. His tests were all negative and the only violation was a taking a shower (which the tester didn’t get to watch). AFLD really wants to open hearings against Lance over this? They want to ban him from racing the Tour, or at least piss him off enough to get him to change his mind. Look out though, because the more pissed he gets the better he’ll race.

Read the full story from VeloNews here.

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There is this epic road ride in Colorado called the Triple Bypass that covers 120 miles and 10k ft of climbing in a day. Its gotten so popular that it sold out all 3500 spots in 11 days. I’ve ridden it twice and am doing it again this year, except that I got busy with work and managed to rope my friends into registering in time…but alas, I did not. So I’ve posted on craigslist that I’m looking for a registration ticket and worst case I’ll be getting creative. 

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