What´s Worse than Being French?

Being French in July.

Yes, cycling has been hit with another major doping scandal, sending the German, Italian, Spanish, and, though not through his own fault, Kazak favorites home on the night before the start of the sport´s biggest stage. With Lance Armstrong having retired, that means that the top five riders from last year´s Tour will not start this year. Chaos, right?

Wrong! With the favorites now out and their teams depleted, it is all but inevitable that the winner of this year´s Tour de France will either be an American or be a rider on an American team. It is even conceivable that all three men standing on the podium in Paris will be Americans. What´s more, the American riders are relatively young, and this could be a long extension of the American dominance in the country of cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Don´t expect to see much of the french tri-color along the sides of the roads this year. They´ll probably just go with their traditional all-whites.