Tour blogging 2010

Quote of the day:

“I do think controversy is part of the rich history of the sport,” Stapleton said. “It’s not like you have a controlled message in cycling, something coming from a commissioner or a league office. Here, you have every team commenting on what’s going on and every big cycling fan commenting on what’s going on. For the past 100 years of the Tour de France, there has been controversy. The sport thrives off it and breeds it.”

But Cancellara has not been happy about it, at least when he is at the center of it. After his victory, he wondered if as many people watched him race on Saturday as watched the video of his alleged motorized doping on YouTube.

Others did not take the allegations so seriously. After the Garmin-Transitions rider David Zabriskie’s bike was X-rayed, the Garmin team director, Jonathan Vaughters, commented about it on Twitter.

“Zab’s bike is the first to go through the bike scanner,” Vaughters wrote. “They didn’t find a motor, but they did find an old 8 track of the Eagles.”

Crazy Stage One today, with awesome crashes.

And congratulations to Rafael Nadal whose knees looked ok to me. NBC is about to replay the Borg/McEnroe match from 30 years ago, considered the best tie-breaker of all time.