It's July again and time for the
Tour de France. Three weeks of cycling, thrills, spills, but, hopefully, no doping disqualifications. There's a wonderful (but painful) commercial featuring past champions being defrocked of their titles by running the tape backwards. An official removes
Landis's jersey, stripping him of the yellow. Rasmussen rides backwards into the starting gate. Hopefully we're in a new era and we can just enjoy the race.
Can't explain why we like the Tour so much. We're not cyclists. We don't even know who tuned in first to (then)
OLN in 2002. But there we were one evening,
BW watching racing and me watching French countryside. We were hooked. Then we got into the
Lance Armstrong drama the following year. We watched him win #5, #6, and #7.
There's a Spaniard in the yellow jersey today.
Valverde won the 1st stage.
Only 20 more to go.
1 comment:
I've never actually watched the Tour De France (other than bits on the news), but I think it would be neat to follow. I was definitely into Lance Armstrong (LOL as much as you can be without actually watching). May have to turn it on some time :)
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