I said in another thread that for me the TDF on TV was "like watching paint dry". Well, the Landis Miracle disabused me of that!
Never having been interested in bike racing before, I still am mostly clueless about what's going on in a race. Must find a "Tour de France for Dummies" sort of intro somewhere...tried Googling already for an on-line primer to no avail.
In a perverse way, the elimination of the "favorites" in the drug scandal might have been a blessing in disguise for this Tour. Would the expected Basso/Ullrich showdown have been this compelling?