Originally Posted by Racer Ex

http://www.velonews.com/article/7564...uca-suspension.

Astana will win and probably sweep the podium. Casual fans will clamor for their inclusion in the TDF. People who saw and understood the Contrador vs. Drug Fueled Chicken battle last year, where domestiques were flying up the road in the third week of the TDF ahead of the best guys in the world will not, more for having a race shat upon just when it gets good, than from any moral stand.

ASO, who is trying to make it through one TDF without a doping scandal, will look at Astana's roster and the people in charge and decline.

The UCI will announce the 2009 Tour of Burma.