This Paris Boy is just another insignificant frenchman. Pay him no mind. He uses typical French logic - invoking such terms as "respect," yet heaping nothing but scorn on every English-speaking person on the list from the moment he appeared on the scene; claiming that we all must be wilfully blind to doping in cycling, yet himself falling prey to baseless accusations and assumptions grounded in nothing. He compares Lance's wins to big tobacco, seeming to forget that this is just a little sport we're talking about. I love cycling, and I ride every day . . . but at stake ultimately is just a win or a loss.
The French seem to have no perspective on cycling any more - perhaps because they have such "blue balls" over not winning their own grand event for so many years. Not to be crass or anything, but it is certainly true. I offer anecdote as evidence of the national reesentment that exists - seemingly against English-speaking lands in particular. The last time we were in Paris during the tour -- during the final week of the race (once it had become very clear that Lance and his "blue train" would win yet again) we actually had difficulty finding a single bar that would tune their television to the race. We simply wanted to grab a pint and watch the race. We tried over a dozen establishments and not one would tune in the telly to the race. This was the first time I had ever witnessed such willfull blindness. It was as if the race wasn't even taking place.
Go sell your garbage someplace else, Paris Boy.
