Otter's Journal: Ivan Basso, Jan Ulrich kicked out of Tour de France

Some crazy news on an otherwise sleepy Friday -- the investigation into doping by the Spanish authorities has resulted in Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich and Francisco Mancebo being suspended by their teams. So now the top four finishers from last year (the link says three but that doesn't seem to be counting Lance) are going to be out.

This was going to be an entertainingly wide-open race anyway, but it should be a free-for-all now. If I can only get around to getting OLN...

Update: Now Alexandre Vinokourov is out despite not being named, as five of his teammates are gone! If any of you are in good shape and have eight friends who are also, you might want to grab your bike and a get a ticket to Paris!

Basso Just to the Giro

[Real World Stuff]

Damn

it was funny how I found out..

[jci]

I was on my way home early and I called my roommate at the bike shop to see if he could bring home something like a cool poster of the stages or something like that promotional (usually from T-Mobile/Giant).

He kind of went "ugh, I guess you haven't been keeping up on your cycling news then," and was pretty much:
"Ullrich, out.
Basso, out.
Mancebo, out.
What used to be liberty seguros, out"

Ouch.

Re:it was funny how I found out..

[Otter]

Well, get the poster! It'll be a collectors' item when Lance suddenly shows up and wins again!