why would they sign someone whose best days are past?
isn't he like 50 now? [kidding]

lance has a part ownership interest in it. Shows how desperate discovery is right now, they sign one almost over the hill star and may sign another that is aging and may not even be able to ride for another two years. They had it coming in my opinion. I am so glad Floyd gave them the snub.

Postal and Discovery built an entire team around one guy. In the process, their dictator, Lance, who I am not a fan of, drove away the most talented riders, i.e. a certain Floyd Landis because they weren't allowed to shine on that team. I have also heard that Lance is not the most pleasent individual to ride with, which doesn't surprise me, because to ride at the level (whether he was clean or not, I have no idea and me nor anybody else except him will ever know) that he did you have to have a certain drive and personality that doesn't really translate to the most pleasent personality. When Lance left, Discovery was nothing but a shell of good support riders programmed, trained and designed to support someone else, but the problem is that they didn't have anybody else. When you build your team around one guy, that is what happens.

We must have read 2 different articles, the AP article I read Floyd said he wouldn't mind riding for Discovery "I wouldn't be opposed to going back,". Sure he would want to stay with his I-Share's team. They did the same thing USP and DSC did for Lance, build a team around him to win and he did just that.

How many times was the man tested?

Here is the way i look at things...i dont know lance personally nor do i pretend to know everything about him but i have read a lot of books about him and interviews and been following him closely for the last two years....he is so ultra-competitive that i dont think he would have doped....now i know that sounds backwards. but here is my reasoning...he wants to be better than everyone. if he had doped, he would not know if he was better than anyone. i know this may be weird logic and hard to understand but i think his make-up of uber-competitivenes wouldnt allow him to dope to win, it would be tearing him up now.

Postal/Discovery has been the training ground for virtually all of the U.S. TdF cyclists (and many others) for the the last 8 years. Sure, most of them went to other teams --- they've all thought they have a shot at winning it, and that wasn't going to happen on Lance's team.

Lance is a winner, and I don't see any reason why he wouldn't want guys like Floyd, Jan and Levi riding for his team. Of course right about now, its looking like the first two might not be riding for a while.

Duh! He's an elite athlete. Show me an elite athlete, who when it comes to their sport, DOESNT make it all about themselves. It takes that focus and drive, some might call it self centered-ness, to stay at the top. All elite level athletes are about as cocky as it some. Some are just more vocal about it. Some put on a pretty face and kiss butt for the public and others don't. Dont think for a moment that Ullrich, Basso, Landis, and all the others arent self centered and egotistical.