take back the tour???

i saw this on Pro Cycling Weekly's website - a Where R They Now about last years top 10 at the Tour de France - it was pretty funny.

and now Vs. has this Take Back the Tour commercial running - like finally they realized there is doping in cycling?

what i really want to see is a tour preview that breaks the athletes down by their former trainers and lists their odds on victory vs. getting busted... somthing that looks a bit like this:

Michelle Ferrari:
past clients include Lance, Levi, Floyd, George Hincapie, Bjarne Riis, Vino and other top tour riders...
not much word on who he's working with now since his last young gun Patrik Sinkewitz got busted and I think he was working with the Chicken for a while...

Cecchini:
past clients include Tyler Hamilton, David Miller and linked to young guns:
Fabian Cancellara, Thomas Dekker, Damiano Cunego

Then there is Fuentes - the gift that keeps giving:
Let's see he's taken down Basso, Ullrich, Mancebo, Beloki, Botero, Scarponi etc...
and still linked to Valv-Piti and Urko... but they are of course totally clean.

So if you go down their list of top 10s from last year favorites it looks a bit like this:

Contador - maybe he's AC and maybe he's not... i mean of course he wouldn't use drugs when his mentor Manolo Saiz is helping him be the best cyclist he can be and goes from Manolo's team to Manolo's most prolithic students team... whatever.

Evans - seriously i can't even watch him race, he whines like Verenque in '97 and '98 but looks like Verenque with the bad hair cut in '99 and '00.

Levi-I-can't-believe-i'm-vacationing-on-the-same-island-as-Ferrari-Leipheimer - the tour is better off without the hours of daily gnashing from Phil and Paul about how he's coming on form and his bullshit interviews about how he's just doing his best for the team... apparently his best isn't even top 10 in a TT at the fucking Giro... seriously no one who's a good TT-er goes to the Giro.

Valv-Piti - should be good because he's apparently learned to start racing without Fuentes' help... or has he?

Sastre - who knows? I would put him in the Cecchini camp since Cecchi was the team consultant for CSC until 2004

Zubeldia - seriously does anyone know who this guy is? he finishes in the top 10 every year at the tour and doesn't race any other races it looks like... he can climb ok and tt ok and probably could podium in a mid-sized stage race but doesn't seem to race them... actually he'll probably have to work for Sammy Sanchez the first two weeks so won't have a shot at top 3 by then anyway. who knows who the Euskatel's work with now, but it was David Millar who said he got his EPO from their team Dr (WTF???) so maybe they don't even need an outside consultant.

Kim Kirchen - ex-client of Cecchini... really riding well this year

Popovich - whatever drugs he was on when he got 3rd at the Giro sure ain't working now... he better get his ass to a mexican pharmacy quick or basically plan to get Evans half way up the final hills and bail out... should have learned a lot about blood-doping while on Disco

Mikel Astarloza -
another Euskatel guy in the top 10 no one has heard of... shocker. did he win any other races? Ever? i'll bet there is a hell of a big blood fridge somewhere in a mountain in the Basque Pyrenees that no one WILL EVER FIND... the password is probably XZYYOLLZX and the only way in is through a sheep cave with a 400 year old shepherd guarding it.

Oscar Periero - oh yea - he was 10th again last year. maybe he shouldn't have named his dog Urko - it's too suspicious. well at least he's willing to take a DNA test to clear his name... oh wait... nevermind.