Tour de France

[Frank Pembleton]

"-- the Tour figured it could market itself better using Tyler Hamilton as a feature draw."

I was buying into what you were saying until this sentence <posted above>.

Hamilton a draw...???

It's not like he's a rising young star with Boonan's ability to draw women to the side of the road.

If Tinkoff and the TOG were to market riders for their appeal, they do have a "stable" of young Russian riders and they could play on having a "cold war part-2" with the Disco boys.

-- as for the TOG, too bad they had to resort to these tactics to keep the race alive. Hopefully, they'll be better organised for next year, but with the Ullrich taint on the sport I'd be surprised to see this race next year.

Unless we all support it, warts and all.