Wait, so why are the Germans boycotting?
Apparently, the networks involved had considered not broadcasting the Tour at all this year, after all the recent doping stuff -- and reserved the right to drop it if any doping came up during the race. [link]
Or are they just embarrassed?
So, yeah, you could kinda say this. But more by the sport than the nationality of the accused.
(Ironically enough, T-Mobile has really taken the lead on cleaning things up compared to a lot of other teams -- their team contracts are much tougher on doping violations than the federation requires and so on. Not that it's made much difference, but...)
In other sports news, I found out while hunting down the German TV boycott details that my Phillies are the first 10,000-game losers ever! Is it any great surprise that my sports affections tend toward the tragic and unpopular?
T-Mobile (the team) is not having a good year.
Timelies all!
I think that pole dancing and me are unmixy things.(I'm imagining bruises in all sorts of odd places, seeing as I have trouble turning corners without hitting something)
They're really, really not.
I must have needed a nap, because not only did I fall asleep for 3+ hours, when I woke up I was convinced it was 7
AM
because it was light, et cetera. As if the cats would let me skip their dinner.
Yikes! [link]
I hope all our NYC buffistas are safe and sound?
I got stuck in the Upper East Side with no subway, but I'm fine.
Yeah, that's crazy. I didn't even know about it until I got home.
I read somewhere that there was only one injury, so I imagine the buffistas are unscathed. I'm still at work downtown.
Mortgage all approved. Am now staring into an ocean of debt, but what the hell. I can swim.