I am really not sure how many of you out there follow professional
bike racing or for that matter even care.

I do and I know a few of you follow the Tour de France and some of the
other races. For that reason I want to make you aware of an extreme
injustice occurring.

The organization that runs the tour de France has decided to ban Team
Astana from the competition this year. The ban is based on some
events that occurred last year with a few individuals. The injustice
is that none of the 2007 Astana team is still on the Team. The Astana
offenders, both riders and coaches were kicked from the Astana team.
The current core members of the team are unfortunately our old team
Discovery favorites Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer, and Coach Johan
Bruyneel to name a few. (btw if you didn't know team Dscovery
disbanded)

Well if you would like to help in some may you can sign a petition to
get the governing body for this event to reconsider this decision.

For some comments on the story check out versus;
http://www.versus.com/tdf/


For the petition to sign check out Let Levi Ride at;
http://www.letleviride.com


Looking forward to riding again soon
Jeff Luedtke