Le Tour de France, 2008

The Tour de France started on Saturday and I have to say, I wasn’t all that thrilled before it started. Something about the sport seems off, not quite right.

I’m not talking about all the doping, or the ASO vs. UCI nonsense, or any of the other scandals surrounding it. There’s a bigger problem: it’s losing its charm, its magic. I guess I can’t say that is happening globally, maybe it’s just for me. I used to love cycling, spend day and night reading about it and thinking about it, replaying the races I had done time and time again, feeling the same adrenaline rush as if I were doing it all over again.

But not anymore.

I’ll watch the Tour every day, and I will try to write about each stage (stage one and two commentary to follow), and maybe, *hopefully*, it will respark what I really miss.