Post by Heinrich Zöhler on Jul 2, 2006 8:24:32 GMT -5
*sobs brokenly* I am so depressed right now...
I watch the Tour de France every summer and have been doing so since I was roughly five. I watch every single stage: sometimes I watch them twice since they're on live in the morning and then a rerun at night. I know most of the riders and was really excited for this year's Tour because Lance Armstrong is gone--there was a huge playing field with endless possibilities.
I was counting down the hours. And then...
The biggest doping scandal since the Festina one occurs, and my favorite rider after Lance who I've cheered for and followed obsessively for years and years, Jan Ullrich, a German rider for T-Mobile, is part of it. So is Ivan Basso, the Italian who Lance had picked out to win this year (despite the fact that he challenged Jan, I was depressed about that too) and Alexandre Vinokourov, my favorite Kazahk rider who is SO cool, can't ride because so many members of his team got suspended that they don't have the minimum number anymore.
*cries* Why'd you have to do it, Jan...? Even though he says he didn't...let's just hope he's innocent.
In the meantime...*crawls into a corner and curls up miserably*
I watch the Tour de France every summer and have been doing so since I was roughly five. I watch every single stage: sometimes I watch them twice since they're on live in the morning and then a rerun at night. I know most of the riders and was really excited for this year's Tour because Lance Armstrong is gone--there was a huge playing field with endless possibilities.
I was counting down the hours. And then...
The biggest doping scandal since the Festina one occurs, and my favorite rider after Lance who I've cheered for and followed obsessively for years and years, Jan Ullrich, a German rider for T-Mobile, is part of it. So is Ivan Basso, the Italian who Lance had picked out to win this year (despite the fact that he challenged Jan, I was depressed about that too) and Alexandre Vinokourov, my favorite Kazahk rider who is SO cool, can't ride because so many members of his team got suspended that they don't have the minimum number anymore.
*cries* Why'd you have to do it, Jan...? Even though he says he didn't...let's just hope he's innocent.
In the meantime...*crawls into a corner and curls up miserably*
