My bets are on Paolo Salvadeli (forgive any misspelling, please!) for Team D's leader next year! I was able to get a Team Discovery jersey w/ pink in honor of Paolo's Giro d'Italia win. Hincapie is great, but not sure if he has the agression to pull off a tour win--I'll be cheering for him to win P-R, though!

It is a shame to see the TTT out this year--but my big fear is the TV coverage will dry up to weekends and late night highlights only since there isn't Lance to draw the big non-cycling audience. Being able to watch the coverage live w/ Paul and Phil was THE BEST... 2006 should be a great race, too!

And I intend to see at least one stage of Tour de Langkawi next month--an "off season" race, but many big teams show up to Malaysia. Will plan my business trip around it!