Eve of the Tour 2006
It’s the Friday before the Tour de France prologue and news is not good. The top two contenders, Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso have been suspended from their teams for being included in the Spanish doping scandal. This is unfortunate and makes this year’s Tour even more uncertain. Jan is old in cycling years and this would’ve been his best chance to win a second yellow jersey since before the Armstrong era. Basso would’ve been trying for a Giro-Tour double which hasn’t been done in awhile. This is unfortunate news and is a dark mark on the sport of
cycling.
