[motohagiography]

beautiful indeed. I loved the Tour for many years and rode in group rides. my favorite parts were the team time trial and the breakaway of the sprinters from the rest of the peloton. Armstrong's cheating itself wasn't so much the issue that took the romance away from it, but the pathetic way he conducted himself afterwards. Seeking redemption was so american and overbearing, and somehow he even managed to make cancer seem cloying, it tainted the ambiguity of the sport more than every other perennial doping scandal. It was too much to shrug off.