The whole thing begs for artificial means, what with having people ride a bicycle for three weeks, thousands of kilometers, uphill, in a blazing sun, hours on end. I don't think anybody has been clean in the Tour for decades and frankly, I don't care.

I actually agree with Dave. Just stop the charade and let them use their dope, as in baseball. The Tour is not a sport, it is medical science. Every bloody Tour there is a doping scandal, it is destroying the sport more than just being honest about it would.

Oh and Armstrong. I'm sorry, but, first, he's this 26 year old, average cyclists. Then he get's cancer, which is treated with all sorts of whacko sci-fi therapies. Then, all of a sudden, out of the blue, *poof* he's this superhuman sportsman. Not better than everybody else, but totally, utterly, completely beyond anything the world has ever seen. The difference between Lance and the second best rider being bigger than the difference between that second-best and me.

Now I'm all for fairy tales and stuff, and his story sure would make a nice Disney movie and all, but come on...
Things that are too good to be true usually aren't.