Getting started. Slowly recovering from a 7 year upper cut.
Lance Armstrong has left the world of cycling as an active pro rider, nothing new there. However, try to imagine the impact of this guy and his team and teammates after seven Tour de France victories. Everything has changed: preparation has become a solid science, with much less focus on medical advice than mostly French people would beleive. Lance made the sport evolve around motivation, anger, determination, teamwork and above all Big Money. I often give credit to the French riders when they mention a world of cycling at two speeds: true, I cannot imagine one French rider having seen a wind tunnel from the inside... No wonder they get left behind!
Anyway, this blog is not about pro X or contra Y, but it is an infrequently updated analysis of the current cycling season, the year post-Armstrong 0. Only after the end of this season will we know whether or not this was a year 0 (with no particular big name stepping to the throne of the Texan Rider and even with another Discovery Channel Tour victory) or year 1 (with a new boss in cycling). But would any new boss have the same long term impact on cycling ... Time will tell.
So far, this year has seen races in Australia, Langkawi, Mallorca and Qatar. Whatever the importance may be for some people to have early season victory, the first real competition is now getting started: the Tour Meditteranéen for sure is one. The summit of the Mont Faron never lies and brings to the fore riders who will be there for the rest of the year, or at least in the weeks to come. Last year top four: Voigt, Moncoutié, Pellizotti and Schleck. Thomas Lövkvist, second in this year's Faron stage, was sixth last year. Tomorrow, Sunday 12th of February also sees the start of the first confrontations between Boonen and Petacchi at the Ruta del Sol. Boom boom Boonen, also called Elvis on a bike, might very well have won a handful of Qatar races, if they would remain his only victories, no one would remember. However, he looks extremely fit and strong and above all, he looks like having lost more weight than last year. Didn't Cycle Sport of Cycling Weekly mention that he might want to have a try at the Tour de France overall?
So many questions, so many names to keep an eye on, so many stories to tell (hell, Hamilton got his suspension confirmed today, a two year ban, what about that Roberto!).
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