Saturday, July 29, 2006

Another Hot Post

First and foremost - it is hot!! Moving on: things are pretty slow around here with Bonnie gone. It's only five more days until I join her in Saskatoon! I'm excited. We are moving in September to a better place - closer to downtown, ten-minute walks to work and school, respectively, close to coffee shops, pubs, theatres; anything, really. It took us all of two days to realize that our current apartment was way out the way of anything fun (except Tim Horton's - no end to the fun there). It will be nice to be able to make decisions on a whim - "let's go grab a beer" and then five minutes later we are having said beer.
In the news, how does Floyd Landis sleep at night? He makes up an impossible time difference from one stage to the next - 8 mins - and the next day he wins the Tour de France. Guess which day the sample in question came from? That's right, his "impossible day". Coincidence? "Oh, my testosterone just happened to be high that day. If he has a naturally high level of testosterone, wouldn't that be factored in to the testing? The circumstantial evidence is too much. With Lance, he is just a machine. Seven years of dominance is proof of that. For Landis, to have one day of dominance combined with suspected doping is just too much. By the way, he coincidentally pulled out of an event in Belgium last weekend. Perhaps he felt the heat. Who is this guy? Okay, I got a little hot under the collar there. I'm better now. Stay cool, everyone.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

For perspective on the Landis kerfuffle read you should read Stephen Brunt's latest in the Globe, a fantastic column: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060727.wbrunt28/BNStory/Sports/home

Anonymous said...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060727.wbrunt28/BNStory/Sports/home

It got cut off -- try the above if you're interested.

Garry said...

Thanks, Dave. Unfortunately the link requires a password and such, but I'll take your word on it. Apparently Greg Lemond, the other American to win the Tour de France, believes both Armstrong and Landis are guilty, even though Armstrong has not even tested positive for anything, at any time. I think he's looking for a slander suit.

Jazz said...

I thought instead of "slander suit", you wrote "slander slut"... Lemond is a slander slut. tee hee.

Garry said...

I think he is a slander slut. He's also been calld a libel lush.

Anonymous said...

A quick way to get around password locked newspaper sites is to search for the story on google news and access it from there.

In the case of the Stephen Brunt just Google news for "Brunt Landis" and you can access it. See you in the next few weeks!