Return of the German cycling Machine

Remember the Canadian snow-boarding gold medalist that was dinged by revelations that he smoked pot? well more than dinged, they took the medal away...then gave it back. Seems that their focus on performance-enhancing drugs never really included pot. Nor should it. It's not like the drug-cycling issues of recent years with EPO and other banned drugs.

When Jan Ullrich, who was the last man to win le tour besides our hero, and who has never finished lower than second, was arrested for "drug" charges one might have expected the same. Nope. More like the canadian - extasy in a nightclub, not EPO in the mountains. Unlike Simoni's positive for cocaine (and his amusing reasons: "my dentist gave it to me", and later "it was in my mom's candy when she returne from Peru") Ullrich simply said "yep. I took it...it was dumb". that's a man that want's to put the past behind him and excel.

today he slammed Lance and the rest of the tour with a stunning victory while Lance was literally foaming at the mouth. This weekend may be the most interesting 3 days of the last 5 years of the tour. Here's the TV schedule on OLN and CBS.