A footnote to the Deezy-in-the-Tour posts: For the longest time it was beyond me why Dave Zabriskie, time-trialist extraordinare and the funniest cycling voice gone missing on the internet, did so poorly in the Tour de France. Given his strong showing in the Giro, I thought that CSC would have been willing to push DZ harder to get a better overall showing for the team. So when DZ flamed out for being over time on Day Eleven of the Tour - and spent a lot of time at the bottom of the listings, it was like, what the hell?
I just read that Deezy (whose contract with CSC expires at the end of this year) has signed up with Jonathan Vaughters' Slipstream/Chipotle team - the one which has vowed to spend wild amounts of money (more than half a million dollars every year) on testing. There's a cultural element to it - Slipstream is pretty much going to be made up of cyclists from Anglo-Saxon, English-speaking countries - but the emphasis on being clean is a huge thing, too.
Here's hoping that the higher standard set by Slipstream will spill over to the other teams participating in cycling. Cycling will survive the dpoing scandals, if only for the contrary element that goes against what all the talking heads are screaming about. Having a group of riders who purposely put themselves in a "clean from the start" position from the start. And let DZ kick some a** after all.
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