So... Alberto Contador is in the Pink Jersey, or maglia rosa. I find this odd, especially concerning his questionable victory at the Tour de France last year. I only say "questionable" because there were so many questionable things that happened at last year's tour.
Now I realize that not many people follow the Tour as much as I do, so let me give you a wrap up... I was cheering for Kazak Alexander Vinokourov, who was doing great - he had some wrecks but then he seemed to be doing better. Then he was thrown out for a positive dope test. Lets not discuss Floyd Landis from the previous year... that's another post. Anyway, Michael Rasmussen was doing pretty well... this is a crazy guy. First of all they don't call him "Chicken" for nothing... he is super skinny, and I've read that he even peels the stickers off his bike to save weight for the mountains - he's nuts. So he's doing pretty well, and Alberto Contador is competing with him pretty well, but he isn't really doing better than Rasmussen. Then *SNAP* Rasmussen is kicked out of the Tour for skipping a drug test (and later tested positive for doping)... So then Contador basically steps up, right into the Yellow Jersey on the Champs-Elysees - without doing what I would consider actual work... And then he joined Vinokourov's disgraced (and under new management) team, and was let into the Giro at the very last minute.
So - needless to say, I'm not a huge fan of Alberto Contador, and it is odd to me to find him in the lead of the first Grand Tour of the year. Maybe he's trying to do what Ivan Basso was incapable of (due to doping, of course) - and that is to win the Giro and the Tour in the same year, back to back. That is if the ASO let in Astana (which they shouldn't - Johan Bruyneel should've known better - yet another post).
