Anatomy Of A Photo: Looks Don’t Kill, Guns Do

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• I guess I was hoping "lessons might have been learned" but apparently not. Why any cyclist would want to be seen in Armstrong's company baffles me. I mean, he just said that he'd dope all over again, just not do the comeback.

• Sound familiar? Excerpts from the Talansky bullshit file:

  Full interview here

• @wiscot

  I remember vividly the faces portrayed in Winning Bicycle Racing magazine from the early 90's.

  I would get copies from what I now know to be an early sensei, he would thumb through them and pass them on to me.

  One thing that I still recall are all the contorted smiles even in the midst of the greatest efforts.

• @brett

  Sound familiar? Excerpts from the Talansky bullshit file:

  Full interview here

  I think if AT had placed more emphasis on "this generation" his quote would have been better. I still think the riders have to prove it to the fans by returning several seasons without a whiff of suspicion.

• There will never be a time of no suspicion, and if we were foolish enough to think there was the whole sport would revert back to how it was in the bad old days. I don't believe this means that guys like Talansky can't get frustrated with the constant line of questioning though, just as his frustration shouldn't prevent us from being suspicious; either he's clean - in which case why shouldn't he be frustrated with the suspicion? - or he's dirty and hopefully we find out one day.

  Also, it sounds familiar because there are only so many words or phrases available in the English language to proclaim your innocence, and when Armstrong said those things there was no Armstrong Lie to add a context - Talansky has the history to understand the ramifications of the lie that Armstrong couldn't...

• Fuck drugs. Get guns.

• @The Grande Fondue

  Fuck drugs. Get guns.

  Indeed. Cyclists looking badass like that makes me a little weak in the knees.