awful revelation:
No, you blame doping and drugs, I'll blame the devil, with his insinuating technophilic temptations and legions of rationalizing demons.‘We are trying to feed and manage this insatiable appetite for luxury,’ Cain said with pride.Harris/ObserverUK/commondreams 22.Jul.07
-Skinny tires, funny lycra shorts, goofy shoes that require the rider to duckwalk when not on the bike and ridiculous helmets were more the order of the day. Oh, yeah, and did I mention that the race took place in France?Verhulst/TampaBay 22.Jul.07
Like so many other Americans, I followed his exploits. But unlike so many others, I had tracked the Tour de France nearly obsessively for years and years before Lance started winning. I can name every winner dating back to 1981. In fact, the first year I paid close attention was the last time a Frenchman won his country's own race. Yes, a very long time ago.
However, this year, I'm having a hard time caring. Blame doping and drugs.
Check this: You don't care if they spend 75000 dollars on a throwaway bike, hundreds of thousands more on developing and refining shorts, vitamins, nutrition, shoes whatever-the-fuck else it takes, but no no no, nothing can go inside the body! Nothing that would help them win, that isn't you know, like food or something. Well vitamins and minerals.
So the technology of the machine can advance at lightning speed, but the technology of the body can only advance in crippled-up stumbling baby-steps.
You're not mentally ill, right? Because if you were you'd know it, right? And if you were too far gone to figure it out, someone would tell you, wouldn't they?
