Just received the email confirmation, the Triple Crankset is going to Interbike 2007, as credentialed media. So to our friend of the blog, Liz Hatch (Vanderkitten), get ready for that hand shake...er, hug!And in the realm of "Too Funny [or in this case Ironic] Not to Post," how about this story (how did I miss this on Saturday, oh yeah my head was being twisted around by that pseudo-phenomenal Vinokourov ITT)...
Instead of Tour coverage a Swiss newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, published the obituary of the sport of cycling. Roughly translated from French:
"The writer imagines a tomb engraved of the dates of birth and of death (1790-2007) and [a] wheel of [a] bicycle. The flagstone is surmounted by a funeral [bike] pump…, of course. The text indicates: “Become little by little a discipline brewing of the million francs and monopolizing the media of the whole world, in particular through the mythical Tour de France, cycling died out little by little, gangrené by the cheating and doping”.The newspaper chose to publish the obit in anger over all the news of doping [we can all empathize with that sentiment]. Although the newspaper maintains its "passion for a clean, true, educational and popular sport,” the article ends with “Today, professional cycling is clinically dead."
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