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I think people are forgetting that he owns part of several companies that were sponsoring him. I believe he is part owner/investor in Trek, and Honey Stinger, etc. SRAM bought back his investment in 2011 I believe. I'm sure he has investments in other areas and with companies he was closely tied to.

Why did so many of the US riders decide not to enter into selection for the Olympics? Phil said either paid off or given promises of no action for their own personal doping infractions. Sounds quite reasonable to me. Did Vaughters, Hincapie, etc get deals in exchange for talking about Armstrong...

I don't think its right to be testing the athletes at 6am. They have to have some boundaries in the testing. Maybe 3am would be a better time to test, but that really starts to cross the lines of treating them like criminals in a prison and athletes in a race. Maybe if they tested every single...

So is the performance of Sastre this year what happens when you move away from the (anti) doping program of Riis?? Going from tour winner to 25min back in a year is a pretty huge change. The rest of the Riis crowd did exceptionally well with Frank/Andy, Cance and the rest of the uber strong...

Didn't his success start when he went to SL (DL/PL) from TMobile?? He was nothing back then and now he was 2nd in the TdF for 2 yrs in a row. They gave him the opportunity to race the TdF that he didn't have with Mapei or TMobile. Sounds like a good move for him and he just didn't have the...

He is not sick or physically limited??? Are you saying that he lost time on purpose to get back at his team by going slow and finishing 30+min back of the leaders??? I'd rather have a sick or injured athlete then one that sand-bags an quits races.

I don't understand how Cadel's performance in this Tour has anything to do with his team or the politics?? What people seem to be suggesting is that he is throwing the tour to prove a point to his team so they do .... ?? If he is getting dropped on climbs against riders that he could compete...

Sorry, he was moving his left hand from the hoods to the drops just as he went over the bump in the road and was probably a little off balance because of that and the wheel pulled out on the painted line for some reason and he crashed. It is very clear that he was moving his left hand just...

Maybe JB tipped off the swiss boarder so that they would be occupied searching the Astana truck while the unmarked motorbikes about 15 cars back carried full kits of blood bags and vials of various drugs. That sounds pretty likely ;)

Convienent how you can add the 40sec on for Armstrongs 'cheeky' move but you still include Le Mevel and Nocentini when they gained the time as part of breakaways that clearly had nothing to do with their superior strength. Le Mevel gained 5:30 in stage 14. Once you take out those 2 riders...

So what is his job on Ventoux?? In my mind his job is to ride up fast ahead of Contador until he attacks and then sit in with the group of people chasing Contador. None of that involves sucking wnd up the hill and soft pedaling to the top 10min down. He is no good if he is down the road so far...

It seems like those standings without the TTT just compress things a little and change a few places. The overall picture doesn't really change however. Wiggens moves ahead of Armstrong for 2nd/3rd (assuming that Le Mevel and Nocentini wouldn't be anywhere close if they hadn't been so far...

Why shouldn't Lance try to win the Tour?? It makes a lot of sense from a strategy point of view for Astana. LA works the TT to stay in the game or move up a little. On Ventoux he leads Contador up from the midway point in the climb and pushes the pace to try and drop as many riders as...

I must have watched a different version of the race today. What I saw was Contador attacking the group with absolutely no reaction from Armstrong or Kloden, they didn't even get out of the saddle to lift the pace. To me that says they knew what was happening and waited for Contador to get...

Good to see we can all still have a fun laugh in the forums. It can't be serious trash talking and juvenile fighting all the time ;)