From Chip Smith of SOAR Communications:

Lumberton, N.C. and LAS VEGAS - September 26, 2007 - Aqu, Inc. today announced the organization of a ground-breaking international cycling event that will be held in the United States: "The Tour of America." The event will be the largest spectator event in the history of U.S. sports, covering approximately 4,000 miles (more than 6,000 km) from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, with 27 stages held during 30 days of competition.

The event will invite twenty-five of the most elite cycling teams in the world and will boast a prize purse currently pegged at $11 million, the largest purse of any international cycling event.

Until this venture by Aqu, Inc., all major international cycling races were held outside the U.S. Smaller stage races are currently held across the country and draw respectable spectator crowds and provide significant economic impact to local communities. However, these races are geographically located within a single state. The Tour of America will span approximately 22 states and will cover hundreds of towns and cities along the way.

"This event will be the greatest international cycling event in the world," said Aqu, Inc. President Frank Arokiasamy. "The Tour of America will provide the largest prize pool to international cyclists ever offered in history and will ensure quality competition from beginning to end. We are excited to finally bring one of the world's largest spectator sports to the United States through a major international competition."

Aqu will hold a press conference to provide additional details and answer questions about its planned Tour of America on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 3 p.m. (PDT) in room #205 of the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. The press conference is being held in conjunction with the Interbike International Bicycle Expo, the largest bicycle industry trade show in North America.Additionally, Aqu, Inc. and The Tour of America will exhibit in booth #6572 during Interbike.

So Floyd Landis gets screwed by the majority of the good ole boys panel of arbitrators, Patrice Brunet and Richard McLaren. How absolutely disgusting and appalling to see that those two arbitrators just followed the party line. CYA at all costs. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, if you know what is good for your career in the anti-doping bureaucracy...

Christopher Campbell was the only person who had the cojones to stand up and speak the facts and the truth. "In many instances, Mr. Landis sustained his burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt," Campbell wrote. "The documents supplied by LNDD are so filled with errors that they do not support an Adverse Analytical Finding. Mr. Landis should be found innocent."

CAS appeal? Forget it... The tentacles of the anti-doping political machine have already wound around anyone and everyone involved with CAS... There is no hope there... USADA, WADA, LNDD, ASO - they all float in the same cesspool...