Do you watch the Tour de France

[Squatch]

With this year's soap opera of a Tour, are you still a fan (if you ever were in the first place)

[Squatch]

1. Judging by the lack of responses...

I take it the most popular response, if people chose to participate, would be #5

So sad. :(

[triguy46]

2. I'm very interested but this year is breaking my heart.

It also makes me doubt quite seriously Armstrongs denials. With every other top rider caught, all the big names over the past 10 years, Riis, Zabel, Pantani, Ullrich, ad nauseum, and with the number of new riders, I a worried that the problem is endemic.

[Squatch]

4. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Rasmussen, Vino, Kloden...all among my favorite riders, and now gone.

[DS1]

3. Don't have cable this year, or much time for that matter

but years past I've watched it.

I think they should make it much tougher, and divide the stops by 2/3rds

but then again, I do have an inner sadist

[pagerbear]

5. The only thing I'm a fan of

...is the muscley legs and heinies of the male bikers. Otherwise, feh.

[demoleft]

6. I've never been a fan...

...even less after the first doping cases involving Italian athletes, years ago.
At the time the investigators were so unpopular that I got really disgusted by my fellow citizens.

As in soccer championship, there's a wall of silence and hypocrisy in athletes and teams. Exactly the opposite of the clean, pure excellence of real sport.

Aggravated by the main doping cause - money.