Tour de France Tracker

This app uses Google Maps (is the illest, tru that, double tru) to show you the route in which riders in the Tour follow. It also has all kinds of detailed information about the riders including heartrate, speed, distance, power etc.

Check it out here...

http://www.ubilabs.net/tdf/

(Paul found this one)

Unbelievable - Ullrich and Basso out of 2006 Tour

I'm speechless.... I don't even know what to say other than the chances of an American winning this race just went way up.

And this list goes on with the riders suspected of having a part in the Spanish Doping Scandal...

http://www.velonews.com/tour2006/news/articles/10177.0.html

Very sad day if this is all true...

Chimp Detox

From the AP -



A 26-year-old chimpanzee enjoys a cigarette at the zoo in Xian, China in August 2005. Xiku the chain-smoking chimpanzee has almost kicked his deadly habit thanks to the efforts of zoo keepers in China, but it has taken a beer or two to help get him through detox.