As someone who thinks that the bicycle is one of the greatest systems of all times in all endeavors, it is near and dear to my heart.

Of course I am a Lance fan. But whether he wins or not, I find it thrilling just to see people going that fast and exerting that much power and knowing that I and all other cyclists do pretty much the same thing, albeit much more slowly.

Interesting to note that there are far more folk songs about baseball and cars, even though bicycle racing was the undisputed attendance king of sports for the late 1800s into the 1910s, in America anyway. What've we got, "Daisy, Daisy?"

Anyway, I am glad OLN is covering it so well, a far cry from some of the earlier American coverage that was uninformed and way too chock full of commercials.