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is it summer already?

landis is a sleazy enough character that his bombshell accusations directed at the likes of armstrong, hincapie & zabriskie should be taken with a grain of salt. not that all those guys are necessarily and categorically blameless — i’m finding it increasingly difficult to believe that anybody who makes his living in professional sports can do so without brushing up against some such unpleasantness — but the real story here is the brass fucking balls on floyd landis, who apparently just decided to admit what everybody already knew about his own $90k/year habit.

Landis had insisted he was innocent and wrote a book in 200 titled, “Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France.” His fans donated money for his defense. As recently as a few months ago, he was on “Larry King Live” to discuss his case and emphasize his innocence.

i don’t know which is more odious — the godawful tiresome hypocrisy of an industry that all but requires its employees to shoot estrogen into their eyeballs and then feigns shock and outrage when the dirty laundry inevitably gets aired, or the neverending barf parade of self-flagellating pro athletes blubbering their mea culpas into cameras — but it looks like we’re in for another round of both. i didn’t think it was possible to be more disgusted than i was with the tiger woods festival of judgment and public self-recrimination, but i think landis has pulled it off. tiger at least had the decency not to go launching his own scandalrama on purpose, whereas landis is by all indications just trying to whip up one more go-round of cheap publicity and fling a little more poop at his former colleagues in the process. pathetic.

results of the 2010 iowa city to coralville bike-bus-car race will shock you:

1. bike
2. bus
3. car

the driver got there fastest, but then had to drive around looking for parking while the cyclist and bus passenger cruised on by.

i don’t think i ever want to live in a city where i can’t pedal everywhere i need to go in under an hour.

Well, let’s be honest. Stage 3 was BORING until the last five miles when a split occured with 27 riders in the lead group. This is why I recommend watching the last 20 minutes! It’s always the best part on these flat stages. Lance made it but a lot of other GCs did not, namely Contador. The professionals say the weather had a lot to do with the way things played out, and even I (untrained eye and all) could tell they were working hard and being blown all over the road. Team Columbia HTC really stepped up and made the finish exciting. Only two sprinters, Cavendish and Hushvod, made it into the lead group but Cavendish won easily once he turned on the juice. But why does he have to be so cocky? He made a sign of holding a phone up to his ear as he crossed the finish. Whatever.

Tuesday’s Stage 4 is the team time trial.  Again, it’s a race against the clock, but with all nine team members on the road, riding FAST, it should be exciting. I predict team Astana will take the lead with Columbia coming in second, followed by Saxo Bank. Stay tuned!