The Tour

No matter how you cut it, July is all about Le Tour de France.

Love it or leave it, the scandals that rock the cycling world continue to ooze from every pour of the Tour. It's hard to believe that so many are caught, or so many are even doping when you can bank on the Tour testing you.

But a larger question is, do other events even bother to test, or just hide their heads in the sand when it comes to doping. I mean, how can the Tour seem to catch so many when other races seem to never catch a sole?

Well, either way the Tour is once again shaping up to be a Tour to remember with fewer American's that in the last few previous and with two American Teams which are all seemly doing well after the first 7 stages.

One thing for sure, this race will come right down to the wire and you should expect the Tour this year to be wider open than ever in terms of strategy and organization.

While people claim and accuse Lance Armstrong and his previous teams of cheating and just not getting caught, people fail to admit that while Lance was racing, the Tour was a whole different race. Every day seem very calculated and exact, and while all the teams have freewill, it seems that maybe,(and IMO) just maybe Lance one by simply outsmarting everyone.

The evidence of his game is clear in the lacking of game that has unfolded over the last two years since he retired. Even though his former mates are still racing, no one seems to be able to pull off the wait & attack games like Lance.

Even still, this like all is promising to be another great tour and with about 14 stages to go, it's still anyone's game.