"I believe Tyler… was doped to the gills." No doubt.

Remember when it was cool to support Tyler Hamilton? All those evil Euros were saucing it up and getting away with it because they were part of some good old boys club (along with lots of doctors and half of Spain it appears) and our squeaky clean kid with the cutesy dog was riding his heart out on foreign soil. For USA no less. Well what f'ing ever.

My new favorite blog said it really well so I won't plagiarize too much here but I am REALLY bummed that this situation is making us (read: cycling fans) into such cynics. Rider gets caught, rider - of course - denies everything, B sample comes back and guess what, it's positive too…

Call me naive but I still must want to have heroes that I can live vicariously through.

I suppose my failing is that with all the doping news surrounding cycling I had some notion that it was helping. Lord knows that all the major sports in America are hopelessly mired in drugs and will probably never rise above. Football, baseball, golf (WTF?!), give it up.

Because I like to ride and race and am bike crazy (and don't want to come down from my high) I now choose to live in a dream world when I read about professional results. And every few days I zap myself with one of those neuralizers from Men In Black just for good measure.

Oh yeah, remember that domain for all the Mr. Hamilton fans?

http://ibelievetyler.com/

Hahahaha…