I could have sworn Lombardia was on Sunday. I double-checked and triple-checked the date and still screwed it up somehow. That saved me the effort of making any picks.

Does Alessandro Ballan think he is Paolo Bettini? Bettini added a fair amount of gold paint to his bike over the last four years after winning the Olympic road race in Athens. As expected, Ballan has been riding a specially painted bike with the world champ stripes. He also followed Bettini's lead and has a gold head tube, a gold front fork, gold handlebar tape and gold on his helmet.

Meanwhile, as best as I can tell, Olympic gold medalist Samuel Sanchez is only wearing gold sunglasses, armwarmers, a little gold on the shoes and gold quick releases.


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