Y'all should read the article again. It's about treating the riders better, talking about them rather than about doping. And just because a rider dopes doesn't make him a "bad" guy. A whole host of factors go into that unfortunate decision, which we just can't know. Uninitiated people don't know how tough this sport is, nor how great the pressure to win. This is not another article attacking the sport. It's attacking the way doping has been made the most important story in cycling. It wants to bring back the REAL stories.

How about highlighting the fact that there are good guys in the sport too. Those who work hard and win. Sure there have been losers, people who think they can dope and never get caught but cycling is one sport where they are being caught and regularly.

As someone else below mentioned, doping exists in every sport. Heck it has now even started in cricket, where there is little to gain, as the recent positive dope test of a cricket player showed. Ask yourself one basic question. You see more number of people getting caught because cycling and the tour is making the effort. Are other sports making similar effort?

And already it has had its effect. Team CSC has delievered awesome, unreal performances this year. Frankly i have woken up every day and searched google hoping to see the inevitable news. But it hasn't come. They deserve credit. 3 riders and only one high profile rider has been found guilty this year. Compare that to last year.

And finally i am saddened by some of the media journalists. Even when we are seeing a battle like never seen before on the alps and throughout the tour, all i see are titles like "Tour De Farce" and just news on how its a "doped race". Lets give credit to the people of cycling for a change. The good guys need encouragement, for the sake of a sport we all love.

"Lance Armstrong obviously used illegal substances in order to win 7 Tours.  He knew this was inevitable, and got out before his name could be forever ruined.

All of his former teammates, other than Pop, have tested positive."

How can you say all of his former teamates have tested positive, CVV? Hincapie? Probably about 100 more....  and lance took test after test after test and nothing was ever found..they even showed up at his doorstep to test and didn't find anything. Anyone can take a crapload of B12, heck Iv done that, doesnt make you a doper..

I hate that the media always goes after the Tour for one or two riders....can baseball outrace steriods?????  

Get off the game of attacking a sport that is doing way more than any other sport in the world to identify and punish those who dope. First thing that comes to mind is baseball, football. These guys get caught and pay a small penalty but stay in the sport. Within these sports the practice of testing is almost non existant. I'm pretty satisfied knowing that a sport that I love, doing what it can and should to show the world that it is serious about these issues.

Lance Armstrong obviously used illegal substances in order to win 7 Tours.  He knew this was inevitable, and got out before his name could be forever ruined.

All of his former teammates, other than Pop, have tested positive.

Being from Floyd's home town, we are embarrassed at such a site.

The Tour needs to take a year off and get its act together, otherwise every year will be the same.  If the organizers could better setup testing and such (I will admit they made a giant leap since last year), it would be possible to lessen the amount of positive testers once the race starts.

The Tour may have been better off just allowing doping, letting the kids ride, and having everyone oblivious to the entire situation.