For those of you that want a good editorial read, or at least one that really spoke to me and how I'm feeling about cycling right now follow this link.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Cycling
Oh my aching heart, the sport I love is so corrupt I feel like I am stretching my morals at times supporting it and watching it. Most recent news is that Jan Ullrich has been fired by T-Mobile, one rumor has it he's been chatting with Discovery. Floyd Landis, the winner this year, is under investigation for his high levels of testosterone after his stage win. Questions are rising whether he is telling the truth, if he's a cheat, or if maybe it's a smear tactic. I had high hopes that maybe, just maybe, it would be a clean tour and that really amazing people involved could be people one could look up to and inspire to be like. I am very happy that Thor Hushovd won the last stage, he is actually the only rider to win the prologue and the final stage.
For those of you that want a good editorial read, or at least one that really spoke to me and how I'm feeling about cycling right now follow this link.
For those of you that want a good editorial read, or at least one that really spoke to me and how I'm feeling about cycling right now follow this link.
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Good article, Kim. I especially appreciated this line "A great sport has been ruined by pharmaceutical frauds and cheats more concerned with steroid cycles than bicycles". The same could be said of baseball over the past 10 years and change the line to this: "A great sport has been ruined by pharmaceutical frauds and cheats more concerned with steroid cycles than hitting for the cycle" or something. I feel your pain. The very sport and players that I've grown up watching and admiring for integrity on and off the field has now been scarred. Makes you question your own drive, desire, and motivation to be a fan and support a sport so far from your own ideal of morality.
"If everyone is cheating then the world's best clean cyclist probably rolled into Paris in 38th place last week. Or, more likely, he didn't even qualify, content to ride in obscurity without selling his soul – and his health – to the devil." Maybe you're the world's best cyclist, Kim and maybe I'm the world's best baseball player. I hope not. But the idea is there now. And that's the hard thing to live with.
With you like whoa....
It's amazing how quickly your respect for someone can just plummet. I want to believe that Landis is innocent... but I don't really. I'm beginning to think that you can't be a serious pro-cycler without being a liar and a druggie. I'm doubting Armstrong's near-calls all those years now too.
Drat. It really makes me hate cycling. Except for I went to Spokes today and talked with the ridiculously-good-looking-cyclist/son of my bosses. Wow. That helped. :)
Won't be online for a few days--headed out to school. Wish I coulda come see your new house... no car and no time.
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