Ullrich and Basso Out of the Tour de France
The sport I love—professional cycling—is being rocked with scandal. Darby Shaw just informed me by e-mail that Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso, and other riders are out of the Tour de France, which begins tomorrow. Something to do with drugs. See here. I feel like someone kicked me in the solar plexus.
Addendum: Here is the New York Times story.
Posted at 4:16 PM CT on Friday, 30 June 2006