Cycling update: SCANDAL

Blood-doping is as icky a concept as I can think of; but as long as it's your own blood, it remains undetectable to UCI drug testers so it appears to be making a comeback. If it ever went away. Personally, I hate reading about stuff like this. I prefer to remain in my blissfully, willfully ignorant world in which hurculean feats are acheived by hurculean effort. And sadly, this is nothing but bad news for Alexandre Vinokourov, who I admire tremendously as a cyclist, and who left Telkom - sorry, T-Mobile - for Liberty to have a crack at being the team leader, because only the team leader has a crack at the Tour de France. Now Ullrich is looking shaky over at T-Mobile and Liberty has pulled their sponsorship out from under Vino's feet.

I'm all for open windows, but some days ignorance is bliss.