The Tour de France is quickly approaching its end. The grueling 23-day series of competitive cycling races will soon reveal its winner and nobody cares.

Currently in the lead is Carlos Sastre of Team CSC Saxo Bank, who sits atop the totem poll at number one in the run-in for the coveted yellow jersey. Although Sastre has been taking the competition by storm, he has nothing on Lance Armstrong who won 22 stages of the race for seven consecutive years after battling testicular cancer. No offense, World but it’s obvious that the US kicks some major ass when it comes to this race.

After the recent reports of Italian Riccardo Ricco’s positive drug results, his team Saunier Duval-Scott was forced to withdraw from the competition. He’s not the only one though, fellow Europeans Manuel Beltrain and Moises Duenas were also disqualified for positive drug testing. The US-based Team Columbia, however, has maintained the “clean team” reputation of the competition.

And to add glamour to the already shining US-based group, one of our own is part of the team this year. By “our own,” I mean college students, of course. Twenty-two-year-old Mara Abbott is currently finishing her degree at Whitman College while cycling for success. Betcha if she were a better cyclist, people would be raving about her instead of suffering from slight disappointment with Carlos Sastre.