Do you ever get the feeling that doping scandals only exist to piss off the media? First Pro Cycling and Cycle Sport and all the other identikit monthlies wasted two months on worthless Ullrich vs Basso covers/features, then Cycling Weekly published with "All hail Landis the hero" as the cover story on the exact same day that news of Landis's positive test results were announced. As bad as it is for Cycling Weekly, somehow we suspect the monthlies have got it harder -- rapidly having to retype their own sycophantic articles about Landis before they go to press, just so they can avoid having publishing an utterly redundant issue of their magazine for the third month in a row. "FUCKINGBASTARD LANDIS I'VE WORKED 90 HOURS THIS WEEK ALREADY" is exactly how we're expecting Cycle Sport's editorial to read.

At times like this, it feels as though we're the only cycling "journalists" not having to eat our words.

Anyway, the whole internet has exploded into a more-than-annoying flurry of stupid people saying either:
1. "I'm so disappointed in Landis. It's a big surprise."
2. "I'm so disappointed in Landis. But it's no surprise."
3. "STFU all you haters the jury is still out."
4. "You're all forgetting that he's innocent until proven guilty. Let's wait and see." Usually directly followed by them demanding: "Name me another sport which is clean!" People on the internet clearly don't understand irony.
5. "I don't think I can like this sport any more."
6. "So what? Everyone dopes."

As a result, we're going to be avoiding the internet altogether. Being a message board idiot is far worse a crime than doping to win a sporting event, surely?

Tomorrow:
Some visual comedy that has absolutely nothing to do with anything topical, meaning we don't have to go anywhere near any cycling-related websites.