Some quick facts from the world of professional cycling...

Astana's Andreas Kloden won the Tour de Romandie today. Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) won today's final state in a sprint. This race closes a great early season for Astana and showed ASO how big of a mistake they made by excluding this team for this year's Tour de France. In light of the recent successes, the Giro d'Italia has now invited to team to compete in the race, which starts this weekend. Astana will bring it's A-list team with '07 Tour winner Alberto Contador, 3rd place American Levi Leipheimer and Kloden. Go Astana!