What I was hoping to avoid this year: Tour De France scandal.
It seems Alexandre Vinokourov (a.k.a "Vino") tested positive for blood doping after turned in an amazing performance in this weekend's time trial. What was truly amazing was the fact that he was really suffering the day prior. Apparently, it was too amazing to be true.
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-tourdefrance-vinokourov&prov=ap&type=lgns
What's especially ironic is the fact that all the riders signed a contract committing to "A new era for cycling" in which they agreed not to do this shit.
Too bad. I liked these guys. It was really unique that a team hailed from Khazakstan. I loved the powder blue uni's.
Nobody could put it in perspective better than Dave Stoller in the 1979 movie Breaking Away :
"Everybody Cheats. I just didn't know."
About Me
- Mick
- In 1968, a baby boy was born and his parents named him Michael. As a cute little zero year old, he had a little round nose and made gurgly noises. But, he also had colic which tired his mama out and his grandmother often rocked him to sleep. One night, while doing this, she nicknamed him "Mickey" and that is why people also call him Mick. He grew up in upstate New York in a place too remote to be called anything. There were a lot of bugs and his Dad yelled at him for using too many paper towels. Little Mickey tried to have fun playing war with his friends and shooting BB guns. He didn't apply himself very much in school and he graduated high school Magne Cum Lousy. One day in 1986 he discovered a lump in his neck which he promptly ignored for more than 6 months. As fate would have it, it was Hodgekin's Disease and after months of dicking around with inept doctors, he promptly underwent aggressive treatment involving brutal tests and chemotherapy. This lasted a year followed by many years of paranoia. This is where he learned to suffer and it payed great dividends. Now he teaches 13th grade at a college in Ohio where he suffers daily.
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