Another major blow to cycling

More and more blows are happening to this years Tour de France. Following Astana's withdrawal comes today's ejection of the yellow jersey holder Michael Rasmussen. Except today's ejection came from within the Rabobank management. Michael had made a mistake by violating his team rules. Supposedly he stated that he was on a vacation in Mexico and would miss two mandatory drug tests. But today a former rider has come forward and stated that he saw Michael in Italy during that time period. This violated Rabobank's rules and thus forced them to eject their leader. Now the yellow will be awarded to the 24 year old Alberto Contador from Team Discovery Channel. This also will advance Cadel Evans to second place and Levi Leipheimer is in third. This now places two riders from the Discovery Channel Team in the top three positions. It's looking good for Alberto he deserves this victory if he team allows him to become the leader.

Some more roster for the Tour de France- isnt it enough already

Well I've got some more teams rosters today. It's just two more. This is also the last tour for the aging Rabobank rider Michael Boogerd. But it's the debut of Thomas Dekker the young Brition who showed his skills in the Tour de Suisse this year.

Rabobank Squad

1. Michael Boogerd
2. Bram de Groot
3. Thomas Dekker
4. Juan Antonio Flecha
5. Oscar Freire
6. Denis Menchov
7. Grischa Niermann
8. Michael Rasmussen
9. Peter Weening

Balroworld Squad

1. Félix Cardénas
2. Gianpaolo Cheula
3. Enrico Degano
4. Alexander Efimkin
5. Robert Hunter
6. Paolo Longo Borghini
7. Kanstantsin Siutsou
8. Mauricio Soler
9. Geraint Thomas
   

Updates and the Tour de Suisse

Well I have completed my updates. The new features include the survey at my left side of the page as well as the new subscription box which is also on the left. The survey will help me help you find the topics that will most interest you. Also the subscription box allows you to enter your address into it and I will updates a program which will allow me to send you my new posts through a mailing list. I hope you like the new features please let me know if you have comments. I am also working on creating a poll which will ask you which opinion on certain races. It will be up and running by the Tour de France. Well back to the cycling news. Andy Schleck lost his lead today overall to Vladimir Efimkin by 21 seconds. He now is in third place following Jose Angle Gomez Marchante in second. The stage winner today is the young Tomas Dekker. He is a 22 year old rider from Rabobank. He won by a total of 8 seconds. Today's stage was cut short due to bad weather in the morning. It started to hail which means that riding is pretty treacherous. It was cut from the original 190.8 kilometers to just 95. Tomorrows stage is supposed to be 125.7 kilometer long. This of coarse depends on if mother nature decides to change that again.