Tuesday, April 22, 2008

NOW PLAYING with Scott Sowers: Is professional cycling dead?


We're lucky here in Georgia. Aside from the great weather and generally friendly people, we're privy to perhaps the premiere competitive cycling event in the country, the Tour de Georgia. Since the first peloton emerged in 2003, this Tour has drawn thousands of people to come watch the world's premiere cyclists in one of the biggest tune-up races before the Grand Poobah of them all, the Tour de France.

But as we descend on Tour week and wait eagerly for it to make its way to our neck of the woods on Friday, I'm struck with the question, is professional cycling dead in this country?

Click here to read the rest of the column here.

Sphere: Related Content

No comments: