The T3sk3y Defenestrator

After three weeks of getting nothing done between 10PM and Midnight because of my TiVO’ed OLN broadcast of the “Tour de Lance”, my life is going to return to normal. Once again, it was an amazing race to watch – the world’s best brought their “A” game and it wasn’t enough.

Jim Souhan, a writer from the local paper had a great story on Sunday:

In seven years, Armstrong has transformed yellow into the color of courage, bike racing into a sport ripe for American domination and a Trek cycle into a worldwide vehicle for cancer awareness.

You go to a Little League game and see parents wearing those yellow “Livestrong” bracelets.

You go to a party, and people who have never ridden a bike without baseball cards in the spokes ask what happened today “in the Tour.”

You wake up every morning and, instead of tuning into Don Imus or SportsCenter, flip on OLN.

I saw this personally a lot – even in my own family. It’s been three solid weeks of strategy discussion around a sport we know nothing about. Now we’re going to have to go back to the important talks regarding life, relationships, politics.. well, maybe not politics.. Fortunately, it’s only about 6 months until the Winter Olympics – that’ll be another two weeks spent in front of the TV.

Here’s a link to the complete Souhan article:
The transformation of cycling, a la Armstrong

Congrats, Lance – the T3sk3y compound will miss you!

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