It was meant more as a joke than anything. Watching the Tour helped keep me sane while recovering from a broken leg. I have no intent to disparage it.
I don’t mean to be your social or athletic “better” (I’m probably not on either case). Its just that when riders like Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis are accused of doping and cheating (I’m convinced in the former case and it sadly appears probable in the latter), the first thing they do is invoke a cheap nationalism that they are being “targeted” as Americans by the French officials.