Start of the new season

Hello,

Two sports events - Cycling and Tennis are about to start their new season from Australia.

Cycling is starting with Tour Down Under, which starts tomorrow with the standalone Cancer Council Classic street race at Adelaide's East End. This is a six day tour and has a lot of sprint sections. This makes it tough for Lance, who had ended up 29th in his visit here last year but that was his comeback race and since then he has done enough for the world of cycling and sportslovers to stand up and take notice.

The confidence of Lance is such that a few days back talking of his thrid place finish in the Tour de France he said that when people were congratulating him on his performance and expressing surprise at his thrid place finish he was surprised. He was surprised because he was thinking that he would win.

The re-emergence of Lance has made the sport exciting again as not only has he brought the required glamour (5000 cyclist followed him at the trial run on the Adelaide roads this morning) but he also brings in a new team 'Radioshack'.

At 37, he is still a force to reckon with and gives joy to all of us who get inpiration from him to continue our active involvement with sports.

Best regards,

Manoj