Tour de France

Over the last 10 to 15 years I have enjoyed following the Tour de France. Some years ago we were actually touring parts of France ourselves during the Tour de France. Our French hosts tried to take us to a point where the Tour was passing on one very hot day, but unfortunately the bikers were a head of schedule and we were a tad late, so that all we experienced was a big traffic jam as people were leaving the town.

With all of the doping scandals and disqualifications that have occurred as a result, I have, sadly, lost interest in it. This is the first year in a long time that I have not looked forward to getting the morning paper and seeing who is in first and how the course is going. I really don't know the names of any of the front riders and frankly I have forgotten to even look at the standings in the morning paper.

I wonder how others feel about the Tour this year and if you are as interested in it as you have been in the past.