You'all wondered where Lance is.......
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But I won't invest myself fully in another rider because even in middle age,
I don't want my innocence dashed by another drug scandal.
So instead of fixating on the Tour, I'm following Lance across Iowa this
week on my own bike. Yes, Iowa. Ten thousand bicyclists will spend the next
seven days riding across Iowa in an event called the (Des Moines) Register's
Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. Armstrong has committed to the ride
this year to raise cancer awareness with the knowledge that Iowa, with its
first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, has outsize importance
politically.
If you're reading this Sunday morning, we'll already be on the road
somewhere in northwestern Iowa. We'll all be riding because we love it, and
none of us will be blood doping, you can be sure. Truth be told, I will be
no closer to Armstrong than any of the other 9,998 riders. It's likely I
won't even see him. But it will be fun, it will be a challenge, and it will
be pure - no questions, no worries, no doping.
Even as I follow the Tour with my head but no longer my heart, I just wish
that race in France could inject itself with a little of that honest Iowa
innocence.
full article
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/22/Opinion/Doping_makes_it_hard_.shtml