A week is a long time in politics, 2 weeks is a lifetime (ban) in cycling

Well, what a tumultuous fortnight it has been in cycling since the USADA report was released!  Riders, past and present, sacked from their positions as a result of doping admissions, the UCI ratifying the bans for Lance, and formally stripping his titles, and the UCI has acknowledged (well, sort of) it too needs to be investigated, announcing an "independent" committee to be setup to look into issues coming out of the USADA report, etc.

It wasn't all doom & gloom though.  Wednesday saw the release of the route for the 2013 Tour de France.  If you haven't seen it, check out the video It's going to be a stonker! For me the highlights of #sbstdf100 (yes, I'm going with that hashtag tweeps) will be:

• Grand Depart in Corsica (a first)
• Team TT around Nice
• Time trial to Mont Saint Michel
• Mont Ventoux on Bastille Day at the end of 230 odd km
• Mountainous TT
• A double dose of Alpe d'Huez in Stage 18
• Evening finish in Paris taking in an extra round about from the regular circuit - the Arc de Triomphe

June 29th cannot come quickly enough! Prudomme has excelled.