Last week we had two great stage races in the Paris - Nice and the Tirreno - Adriatico and while the Paris - Nice especially has plenty of prestige and history around it, to me it feels like the real cycling season is only about to begin with the Milan-San Remo this weekend. That kicks off the one-day spring classics season and over the next month we're in for a host of great and epic one day races.
I followed both those stage races last week though I didn't get seeing too much of it. The Paris - Nice was one in fine style by Australian, Richie Porte, and of course because he rides for Sky the usual we-need-another-Postal-team-asap crew came out to find reason to scoff at the result. Their scepticism and cynicism is completely understandable given what cycling fans have been put through in recent years but the whole thing is getting old and with no evidence with which to hold against Sky except that some doctor was employed by the team who used to administer drugs to another team in the past, it really ought to be let go.
This was all okay for a few months in the winter when there was no present day cycling to talk about, but now that the 2013 season is here and underway, I could really do with browsing for cycling news on the web and on twitter without having to read from some droning non-stop with insinuations either about riders today or stories, theories and speculation about drugs in the sport twenty-odd years ago.
