This smacks of... "You can't fire me! I quit!"
Lance Farve's retirement comes the same day the TdF, and cycling in general, becomes an even bigger farce, what with the apparent reinstatement of asthmatic-cow-drug ingesting champion Contador and the UCI's demand that Floyd Landis retract his claims that the organization's leaders are frauds. Combined, those three events around the same time help place the international sport of cycling on the same level as the Lingerie Football League.
And all of which raises a number of questions:
1. Did LA quit because the Feds are planning to indict him soon? Did he quit because the tests are becoming too stringent -- even though the Tour of California made a big splash recently announcing new drug protocols that bans from the race anyone under investigation for doping, their rules had a huge asterisk that would have allowed Lance to race.
2. Will Radio Shack drop sponsorship of his team right away? Is Alphonse losing his job?
3. Will Comcast drop live TdF coverage from Versus, now that it owns the network?
