ex(PR)essed

Floyd Landis admitting to doping his way through his professoinal cycling career, including his 2006 Tour de France “victory.” I had given up hope on Landis years ago and honestly had put him pretty much out of my mind. Until today.

So, yesterday Floyd admitted to doping. He couldn’t take the overwhelming feeling of guilt of having lied to so many people. Heck, he even took people’s money — soliciting nearly $1 million towards his legal defense fund. He wrote a book, “Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France.” He has clearly been living in a fantasy world where he perpetuated his own lies ad naseum.

A reviewer on Amazon.com noted that Floyd’s book should now be moved to the fiction section. Uh…yeah.

Of course, Lance Armstrong is one of the pros that Floyd is accusing of doping. That’s original. No one has ever accused Lance of such a thing before. You know what? The officials should start testing Armstrong.

You know what? Whatever, Floyd. I’m glad that your conscience finally got the best of you and you decided to clean. Thanks for the honesty — better late than never. But, I still think you’re jerk. Actually, now I think you’re an even bigger jerk.

This day just got a whole lot better! Just a few minutes ago, my sweet husband sent me an email with this subject: “Lance is BACK.” Within the text of the email was a link to a VeloNews article that indeed says that Lance is planning to come out of retirement for five races next year.

Anyone who knows me at all can guess that I think this is fabulous news! I’ve been a Lance supporter for years. When he was riding the Tour, I was a faithful, almost fanatic, fan. And, I have repeatedly mourned his retirement and the sorry state of cycling without him.

I get goosebumps thinking about July 2009: Lance and Johann together again, Lance climbing the Alps at ridiculous speeds and then sipping victory champagne on the Champs Elysees…I can hardly wait! (Honey, let’s book that trip to France to see the Tour like we’ve always wanted!We’ll have bake sales to raise the money!)

Now, if someone tells me that Lance and George Hincapie will reunite for this epic event, I’ll go completely nuts!