OK, maybe Contador didn't play the team tactics when he dropped Kloden, but perhaps he was just doing a CYA. As many have said, he hasn't gotten the press and support a 4-time (soon to be 5) grand tour winner deserves.

But, my favorite line of the sadly, uninformed American came in the first week. We were on vacation and only got snippets of the Tour. Shortly after the Andorra finish, two of the guys got information that they shared with us--"Lance is in third by 8 seconds and there is a non-name Italian and no-name Spaniard in first and second."

OK, I didn't recognize Nocentini either, but Contador was a "no-name Spaniard"? Egads....perhaps I spend too much time watching bicycle racing, but clearly the American sports machine doesn't do much to educate the American cycling public to anyone other than Lance, Lance, Lance--can some even name just one other rider in the peleton????