Recent content by kickingfred

I'll get back on topic in a moment.....but Armstrong a brilliant patron? Well your second para provides plenty of evidence to the contrary for just a start. Superstar athlete? Sure. Strategic Understanding of the mechanisms of media and marketing? Maybe. Or maybe a histrionic personality? I...

+1. in many other top flight team sports, Redant would have got the chop last year. He presented as a grinning dismissive fool in the TdF who attributed 95% of the blame for an unsatisfactory showing to Evan's mental state. That was highly unprofessional. The bottom line is that it has...

The media's and much of the cycling world's emotional reaction to Evans has been always been curious to me. Such a personal distaste directed toward such an introverted person. I'd suggest such distaste is usually reserved for a loudmouth lacking substance to their performances. I mention...

I'm afraid I see Wiggo's GT ambitions going the same way as Millar's. I remember Millar targeting the tour one year after a good result in a few climbs the previous year. And that was a waste of time. And when the tough gets going, these dandy-boys hit the skids. Bit like the English...

Watching Cadel's victory celebration I was reminded of Armstrong's when he won the worlds. Not because they bore any resemblance to one another. But because they were absolute polar opposites. Neither necessarily good. Neither necessarily bad. Just that I think each of those salutes say...

Ha.....usually this sort of comment comes from some some Brit carrying a chip on their shoulder since their parents missed the boat. Australia a former penal colony????? That's just to amuse American tourists. Back to gloating over Cadel. As they say in Oz..."Go you good thing!". Even though...

Now this is the quote of the thread. So suck it up all you Cadel knockers out there. If you whine about Cadel not attacking when you want him too for the sake of your own entertainment.....then you know nothing about cycling. How could you doubters not have picked him as a favourite...

There are very few riders in the world that could get the tour results that Cadel has with such little support. I mean, his team-mates did a great dissappearing act at the first sight of a mountain in 2008. Watch the finale and you'll see Gilbert was at his limit and couldn't move up when...

The movement in the barriers says Bos clips the barrier as he is propeling Impey in a forward manner. Just att he point when Bos' right hand is moving forward of his own shoulder, the barrier line deviates like Bos is touching it. The point of this? Well the barrier is not to blame for a...

Oh, I agree that from my armchair it makes no sense....and Bos is using this defence also....but that's what Schumacher said about crashing into Hill....and why Hopoate got away with having his digits up the oppositions backside for so many matches.....everyone said...Surely not! why would...

That's the worst defence for Bos I've heard yet. Just cause he's a pro and behaved himself on the track (when in full view of the cameras 100% of the time!) means he's incapable of reckless behaviour???? How many times have we rubbed our eyes in disbelief as a sportsperson has done something...

Sorry, but Bos is now junk. Check out McEwen's twitter link. Even the most ardent Bos fan can't argue with this...it is a sling. The outcome seemed to perfectly match the intention. Or, maybe Bos thought he could put Impey into the barriers and stay up himself. This is madison...