Generally I try to keep up with Le Tour every year.  I'm not totally religious about watching every stage, but seeing as how Versus replays the day's stage many times throughout the day, its pretty easy to catch a good deal of Le Tour.

I find it disappointing that there is hardly any news about Le Tour in the media here in the states though.  Armstrong is gone, and the Floyd Landis controversy is still fresh in a lot of people's minds, so I suppose it shouldn't be surprising.  But still, there are a lot of great Americans still in it.  George Hincapie, Dave Zabriskie, and Levi Leipheimer all have shots, to name a few.

You know that the Tour organizers feel this pain as well... because they're reaching out beyond France again this year.  The prologue and the 1st stage of the Tour aren't in France this year.  They're in England!  The prologue yesterday went through the streets of London, and the 1st stage today is from London to Cantebury.

I appreciate that the Tour is definitely becoming international, but many other countries host major stage race events, so why should Le Tour de France turn into Le Tour de Europe?