No Tears for the Champion

One reads about O'Buma and his cohorts extolling the federal privilege, the Swiss thumbing their noses freeing that prevert (sic) Polanski, disappearing Soviet spies, transforming schoolboy soccer into something interesting, ad nauseum.

Why do the pundits conntinue to ignore failure as the greatest teacher of all time? Is it because they never attempt any initiative big enough to kick their respective butts? Yet they perversely pretend to know all and see all.  And we pay money to read that crap while advertising executives pay the freight for the filler. Never mind.

At least the LA Times has been keeping up the straight dope on the race of kings. And remember what Eddy Merkcx said about winning The Tour, not to mention the doormouse.

Read the Times story about Sunday's stage:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-tour-de-france-20100712,0,3180126.story

"When you're rolling around on the ground going 60 kilometers an hour," Armstrong said, "you know you're not going to feel the same. I just couldn't recover."

Johan Bruyneel, sports director for all of his Tour wins, said at the end of the stage, "Lance can't contend now."