or at least what I would do if I was LA, Carmichael and Johann. Recover, hang low, do the TV circuit for early Aug. do a down taper. Keep quite and rebuild for the Vuelta but don't announce your intentions until team selection. If LA wants the 'double' now's the time.
I don't think there's a rider who doesn't tremble at the thought of him in a GT. So do the stealth rebuild and then shock the competition with your inclusion. The Olympics gives him a couple extra weeks of prep and since he's dropped from the Oly. I think this may be the plan. He has no better opportunity psychologically and if he feels as good as he says, this may be his best chance. Use the stealth approach so those who know they are racing it don't really try to up their form.

I was saying the exact same thing the other day, though I didn't go as far as considering the dropped Olympics as being an opportunity to get ready.
Has anybody ever done the triple?
Giro, Tour, Vuelta? Not that Lance would try because the Tour is too important to him, Just curious.

I posted this on a separate thread yesterday:

Doubles:
Giro - Tour: Fausto Coppi (1949, 1952); Jacques Anquetil (1964); Eddy Merckx (1970, 1972, 1974); Bernard Hinault (1982, 1985); Stephen Roche (1987); Miguel Indurain (1992, 1993); Marco Pantani (1998)
Vuelta - Tour: Jacques Anquetil (1963); Bernard Hinault (1978)

Merckx and Roche both won the road world in the same year as a double (74 and 87).

Has anybody ever done the triple?
Giro, Tour, Vuelta? Not that Lance would try because the Tour is too important to him, Just curious.
Yes! a Basque rider Marino LaJaretta (sp?) during the mid to late eighties (as I recall) regularly did the triple. Although he never won he always finished relatively high up (again this is from memory) I don't recall the team he rode for

or at least what I would do if I was LA, Carmichael and Johann. Recover, hang low, do the TV circuit for early Aug. do a down taper. Keep quite and rebuild for the Vuelta but don't announce your intentions until team selection. If LA wants the 'double' now's the time.
I don't think there's a rider who doesn't tremble at the thought of him in a GT. So do the stealth rebuild and then shock the competition with your inclusion. The Olympics gives him a couple extra weeks of prep and since he's dropped from the Oly. I think this may be the plan. He has no better opportunity psychologically and if he feels as good as he says, this may be his best chance. Use the stealth approach so those who know they are racing it don't really try to up their form.

it'd be fun to watch! He does keep saying though that he wants to see his kids. Apparently he hasn't seen them since April.

One small problem is that Lance will almost certainly race the T-Mobile International in San Francisco on September 12. Because the company that runs the race also owns USPS, and because no one in the USA knows any other cyclist other than Lance Armstrong, they will make sure he is there. The Vuelta is September 4-26. Can't do both.