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07-13-09, 10:35 PM
From today's Wall Street Journal sports page. Guess we're not the only ones noticing (I added the boldface). Oh yeah, ignore the bit about horseshoes - it relates to an earlier article on the page:
A Catfight in Cycling?
Monday is a rest day for the boys on bikes, who still haven't sorted out the internal fight between Lance Armstrong and his Astana teammate Alberto Contador. The two men are separated by two seconds in the standings, and unless something wacky happens, one of them should win the race if they don't maul each other first in fingerless gloves.
Astana's four-wheeled catfight may bum out cycling's purists, who'd prefer to see someone gentlemanly defer, but it's good news for Versus, the network that holds the American TV rights to the Tour and whose institutional obsession with Mr. Armstrong recalls Sandra Bernhard's scenes with Jerry Lewis in "The King of Comedy." This week is likely to be a quiet one in the Tour, with mostly uneventful stages, before the competition swings into the Alps -- and everyone starts grabbing horseshoes.
A Catfight in Cycling?
Monday is a rest day for the boys on bikes, who still haven't sorted out the internal fight between Lance Armstrong and his Astana teammate Alberto Contador. The two men are separated by two seconds in the standings, and unless something wacky happens, one of them should win the race if they don't maul each other first in fingerless gloves.
Astana's four-wheeled catfight may bum out cycling's purists, who'd prefer to see someone gentlemanly defer, but it's good news for Versus, the network that holds the American TV rights to the Tour and whose institutional obsession with Mr. Armstrong recalls Sandra Bernhard's scenes with Jerry Lewis in "The King of Comedy." This week is likely to be a quiet one in the Tour, with mostly uneventful stages, before the competition swings into the Alps -- and everyone starts grabbing horseshoes.