Go, Tondo, Go!

News from Saturday: Cycling News confirmed that it was Xavier Tondo who tipped off police late last year, about a doping operation.

He received an email offering him EPO and clenbuterol, among other stuff (funny, I only get emails offering me Viagra, a substance for which I have no use at all) and he sent the email straight on to the police.

Yay!

Good boy, Tondo!

I'm particularly pleased as he was one of my favourites in the first half of last year, before I was struck down with AndyNess: he and Sastre were having ding-dong battles in the earlier stages of the TdF. OK half the time I called him Tonto rather than Tondo, but he did well. And no, he's not pretty, but he was very valiant, and now we know that he's a clean rider as well. So yay! for Tondo!

Other news for today: it's supposed to be snowing in Lux today, according to our old friend Cathy Reay at News 352.  (Aaah, remember all those lovely reports I used to bring you, of the Howald Tunnel? *sighs*) However, I've just checked the webcams, and there are practically no cars on the roads of Lux, let alone any snow.

I kid you not:


There you go.

Empty!

Empty!

I make that about a dozen cars, over 9 cameras. (sorry about it spilling off the edge of the page.)

In comparison - five minutes later, on the M4 outside London (ie not even a busy one!) I can count two dozen cars on the nearest carriageway alone.

Say, someone - Alice, are you still with us? Amanda, are you around today? - what's the speed limit in Lux, on the motorways?


Question: if a car is speeding on an empty motorway and there is no-one to see it, does it matter?

Finally for today, although I have failed to gain a new follower today (*cries of "oh woe! oh woe!" ) I thought I might share this pic with you: have a nice day, one and all.