Tour Wildcards announced .

. . . Tyler (no surprise) and 'Cipo (Div II no less) are in!

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2004/feb04/feb27news3

They suggest 'Cipo’s last season, hopefully he’ll be motivated to finish, although the idea of him TT’ing up ADH in the last week at this point takes some imagination.

Wheeeee

Another humiliating experience for the once spectacular Cipo at the hands of Petacchi.

Since they are handing out pity invitations for their past mistakes I thought surely Pantani would be invited too - they did say they would find some way to honor him this year. Considering what ASO seemed to think of him while alive, maybe they were thinking more of a memorial drug testing trailer.