Way to Go Floyd...



Well, in the grand tradition of this year's Tour de France, Floyd Landis (this year's winner) has been caught doping. Leave it to a formerly amish soft spoken Californian to ruin the experience of this year's Tour for everyone involved as well as the fans who watched it. His spectacular recovery on stage 17 after completely cracking on the Alps the previous day doesn't mean anything now. What started out as a Wide-World-of-Sports-thrill-of-victory-and-agony-of-defeat-episode will now be riddled with scandal. The worst part of it all is after all is said and done he will get a slap on the wrist and a suspention from professional races for only two years and then he will be back. Even in Phonak fires him he will get picked up by someone else (cough cough...Discovery). You may say, "Hey Betagirl, take it easy. It was just elevated levels of testosterone." And then I would have to say "Please! Performance enhancing is performance enhancing any way you look at it. If I were to have increased levels of testosterone I would put on 80 pounds and grow a mustache but this guy becomes one of the greatest cyclists in the world. No Fair!"

Is it me or are the restrictions on doping in sports too lax? Hell, baseball has been ignoring it for years now. I am not sure why I expected anything more from the world of professional cycling.