A video on Lance's "livestrong" website just announced like 40 minutes ago!
(i.e. a video BY Lance himself) that he was founding a new bicycling team in
2010 FOR the TDF with Radio Shack as the sponsor! It is unknown whether
Bruneille will join him but apparently certain that Contador will NOT as
Contador has one more year in his contract with Astana.



Kind of bizarre - Lance is third overall and Contador blew him away on the
time trial today (won the stage). Andy Schleck is also ahead of Lance.
Lance bearly made third ahead of Wiggins by 40 seconds.



Speculation is, of course, that Johann Bruneille will abandon Astana to join
Lance on this new team (name to be announced later today) but nothing
confirmed.



According to USA Today (if you can believe them) the conflict between Lance
and Contador is apparently real..



My Take? Even IF Lance does more training, he will be almost 39 next year
(his 38th birthday is in a week or so the news guys announced) and a young
athlete like Schleck OR Contador in his 20's, trumps an older fellow any day
of the week. I think Lance should consider retiring or becoming the
directif of the new team. maybe that is his plan which would make more sense
than trying to INSIST on competing with the snot nosed kids in cycling. Of
course that would leave Bruneille out of the picture unless he is so into
Lance he's ready to play second fiddle. My this is even more dramatic than
the tour itself. talk about "As the bicycle wheel turns" *LOL*



Stay tuned. this is getting more and more interesting. :)



http://blogs.usatoday.com/gameon/2009/07/lance-will-ride-for-radio-shack-in-
2010.html



Sue



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