For those of you who haven't noticed, and I'll say that there are a lot of you out there who haven't, the procycling season kicked off this past week with the Tour of Qatar. And picking up where he left off last year was The Tornado. Tom Boonen and Quick-Step again dominated this event with Boonen winning decisively in the sprints that he contested, while teammate, Wilfried Cretskens, took the overall prize. Photo AFP.
In Asia, the Tour de Langkawi, an event Discovery's Tom Danielson won while riding for Saturn, began its 12th running, signaling the start for some of the less notable Pro Tour and Continental teams.
But perhaps the most notable start came in Europe, where the GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise's start list included Tyler Hamilton (Tinkoff Credit Systems) and a Unibet.com squad who was banned from wearing their logo because of some squirrelly French law that bans the advertising of foreign gambling and betting houses. Huh? So what does the Unibet.com team do? They come out dressed like Frank Gorshin's Riddler from the old school Batman TV series and win the whole darn shooting match. C'est la vie.
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