So, Garmin announced their roster today and Tom Zirbel's name isn't on the list - I (and others on Facebook) thought they'd signed Zirbel back in September, looked it up and found this CN article for instance - so is it just a mistake or did something change between September and now? Anyone know?

link to a photo from Cadel Evans' website, from a book-signing event today/yesterday (depending on one's time zone!) - note the phrase on the T-shirt, lol.

... not to be confused with the Australian Cam Meyer also on Garmin ;-). Of course, there have to be the comparisons to hockey and the explanation of what a domestique does for the non-cycling readership - the writer makes it interesting. and a good quote:
"It is work without glory yet Meier finds romance in it. "For some reason as much as I admired the winners and champions I always had a deep respect for the domestiques. The guys who ride day in and day out and do the work and get bottles. They'll ride two or three of the Grand Tours a year. For me that held huge appeal. You always want to be a rider and a winner and a champion but I also enjoy being a domestique. I love riding at the front of a race.""

cool tidbits about Horner's life in Bend including stuff about his kids... oh, and cycling of course!

good to hear that Tuft is finally getting back to normal, I'd thought his crash at De Panne didn't sound so horrible and wondered why he didn't seem to have raced since (and was pulled from Garmin's Giro team) but it sounds like he'd been having post-concussion effects from his ToC crash even until just recently.

Keenan (sometime CTV commentator) comments on a number of recent crashes with some good analysis - including Armstrong, O'Grady, Schleck/Lloyd, McEwen, and the Bos/Impey incident (someone quoted Keenan in one of the Bos threads, not sure if they'd seen this video or whether it was transcribed somewhere) - also some pics (somewhat graphic) of Keenan directly after his own crash 3 weeks ago, glad to see he's recovering.

click on "reactie Evans (Engels)" under audio for the interview, the accompanying article has just a brief summary but not really all of it.