Tyler Tyler Tyler...

There's sad news in the cycling world today, as it was announced that Tyler Hamilton was dropped by his team, Phonak. I had considered Hamilton's performance in the 2003 Tour de France one of the grittiest displays of personal courage I had ever witnessed in sports. Riding through the Tour with a broken collarbone suffered on the first stage, he managed an individual stage win as well as a finish in the top five. My wife and I even used Tyler as inspiration for suffering through pain when she was in labor with our child.

It's disappointing to see such a figure taken down by doping. The saddest thing about this story is that it removes what little hope I had for any clean performances in cycling. When you look at this story you have to think to yourself, who isn't doping?