Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Sad day for Cycling...

Alex Vinokourov, the pre-race favorite for the Tour de France, and current 2 stage winner has tested positive. The news just came out. The mood in the house is somber. Questions fly. The man was hugely popular in cycling, s strong man never afraid to attack. And attack he did on a regular basis. But now, all is brought into question. All by one positive test for blood transfusions. As a group of dudes trying to make it as professional cyclists, this is huge for us. And not in a good way like jobs opening up, but bad in the sense of losing sponsor dollars. The fallout from this and the many other recent cases could impact us personally. There was even supposed to be a large announcement regarding our team and a certain Pro-Tour team coming either toady or in the coming days... Currently we wonder, who will be the next to fall. On the plus side, it means the controls are working as designed, unfortunately many seem to continue to try to get around the controls. What next, really brings a dude down...

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