Now that Operation Puerto has completely up-ended anyone’s Tour de France predictions, it is time to hastily draw up a new set of favorites for the upcoming Tour. The dust has yet to settle on the fiasco caused by Operation Puerto, but we must move on and pick favorites.
It looks very good for an all American podium now that most of the top faves are gone. Top picks should now go to Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer and Paolo Savoldelli. With all of the fallout even Hincapie has a strong chance at an overall win…psyche, just kidding George.
Yaroslav Popovych, Carlos Sastre and maybe even Bobby Julich could place very well in this Tour de France.
Unfortunately the entire Tour will be overshadowed by the Operation Puerto mess, and the sporting side will be minimized. It almost makes me not want to follow the Tour this year.
blue squirrel
keep watching, the sport just got better, it is going to be an even better TDF than expected now. all those clean riders battling it out for supremacy, this is going to be the best TDF in decades. on a side note, all of us at team becher+ are proud of your determination to lose weight and cycle, our team consists of ol’ masters that have all lost weight, keep up the great work.
Velochimp
Thanks blue squirrel. The weight is slowly coming off, so soon there will be less of me to carry around on the Crit courses.
I definately will watch the Tour, but these types of scandals are hard to swallow.
It will be a very good Tour for American riders by far. It will be fun to see Landis and Leipheimer battle it out. Hope it is an exciting race.