deja vu all over again......

ok, so...the tour de france starts tomorrow under a larger cloud than the one the year that the festiva team was banned for doping....sadly, the potential for glory seemed worth the risk to so many riders....we are waiting for the dust to settle before we revisit the official tour web page.....just days ago we printed out the team rosters, along with color picutres of the team jerseys...just to get us psyched.....at some point we'll have to break out the black marker to strike the names of the disqualified....one has to give credit to the tour organizers for taking such drastic measures...anything less would have tainted the sport.......but.......but.....the notion that folks that have waited patiently for lance to retire cannot compete is just too tragic to be real......yes, i'll watch my mother's taped stages.....as i do every year....but i cannot imagine that a day will go by without at least one of the commentators lamneting on the 2006 race that should have been........