Graydon Carter was so so so excited to tell you about Lance Armstrong's return to cycling, but now the part-time restaurateur's fun is all spoiled due to some unexpected cyber leakage. Like anal leakage, but harder, if not impossible, to clean up.

The magazine interviewed the sexy one-balled biker and lady celebrity dater in his home for the November issue, where Armstrong revealed he'd make a comeback next season. Hoping to get the exclusive in print and maybe drum up some of those newsstand sales, VF kept the story for the magazine — but the story got scooped anyway on Monday by a bicycle website.

VF scrambled to put their piece online and is re-considering its run in print edition (the November issue doesn't close till Sept. 19), but the damage is done — proving, of course, that print an obsolete medium in the era of constant-access, 24-hour blogs, and pompous old-school print editors. Nothing new here folks, move right along.

The sad thing is, Lance wanted the story to come out in VF; he broke the story to them after all, not some website — much in the same way Miley Cyrus announced she's ready for your sex dreams consideration, and Angelina Jolie revealed herself to be a transsexual.