Can't adore Contador

[Ryaguas]

Call me petty, but that high pitch whiny squeaky voice makes me hit the ffwd every time, and it wouldn't matter if I understood whatever the heck he was saying.

LOL... squeaky voice??? maybe you have not listened Cuddles... but yes AC has quite squeaky voice but that doesn't bother me at all... maybe cuz one of my main languages is spanish? I dunno...

a language spoken by +600 million people

mmmm I think that for much more ppl... after mandarin is the second most spoken language in all the world...

Because arrows are inherently cooler than pistols. Next question.

Epic

-1. Chiste denigrante.

Creo que no solo denigrante... aqui hay gente que no tiene ni una puta idea... como diriamos por aqui "Hey *** learn some spanish"...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

better not adore Evans, then, either.

For the record, I don't "adore" anyone.. far to cynical for that. What I like is the race and the sport. It's too risky to idolize any one participant in it though. Better to watch the racing without growing too attached to a favorite IMO.

The king of squeaky voices

 

[scribe]

For many Americans, it is difficult to relate to a sportsman who doesn't speak English. Add to that fact the situation where many Americans idolize Armstrong and he had that over-dramatized feud with Contador last year. Throw in a victory salute that is almost unanimously agreed upon as being kind of annoying. Just for a little extra he is sponsored by a former cold-war opponent of the US.

Summed up, you get an athlete that will find it very difficult to endear himself to American fans and sponsors.

no. He has a mousey voice and disposition.

 

[Ryaguas]

Call me petty, but that high pitch whiny squeaky voice makes me hit the ffwd every time, and it wouldn't matter if I understood whatever the heck he was saying.

LOL... squeaky voice??? maybe you have not listened Cuddles... but yes AC has quite squeaky voice but that doesn't bother me at all... maybe cuz one of my main languages is spanish? I dunno...

a language spoken by +600 million people

mmmm I think that for much more ppl... after mandarin is the second most spoken language in all the world...

Because arrows are inherently cooler than pistols. Next question.

Epic

-1. Chiste denigrante.

Creo que no solo denigrante... aqui hay gente que no tiene ni una puta idea... como diriamos por aqui "Hey *** learn some spanish"...

 

[dgodave]

That would indeed be cool, unfortunately under the Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty the use of nuclear salutes are limited to French, British, Russian, American and Chinese riders and none of these nationalities have really detonated the race yet. You might have something to look forward to though, since sources in team Radioshack informs me that that Armstrong is going to blow up like nuclear warhead on Tourmalet.

Good point.
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The French are the only ones at the intersection of mimes and nukes.
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[erader]

Fleche has an arrow.
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So why cant Contador have a pistol?
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What does Cadel have? Ant poison?
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and what was with paulinho sucking his thumb the other day ... was he coming out ?

erader

 

[scribe]

Guys at versus sort of stare at one another after an AC interview and wonder how they are gonna program the next 5 years around this guy. OLN is toast already.

 

[hrotha]

I liked how Zuelle dedicated his victories to all the kids who had just learned how to ride and were really awkward on a bike.

 

[scribe]

The king of squeaky voices

yeah. But you can always look forward to a cadel implosion and resulting acf94 dramatics around here.

 

[python]

For many Americans, it is difficult to relate to a sportsman who doesn't speak English. Add to that fact the situation where many Americans idolize Armstrong and he had that over-dramatized feud with Contador last year. Throw in a victory salute that is almost unanimously agreed upon as being kind of annoying. Just for a little extra he is sponsored by a former cold-war opponent of the US.

Summed up, you get an athlete that will find it very difficult to endear himself to American fans and sponsors.

david, i usually like your posts but this one is really ignorant. almost stupid. kazakhstan never was 'cold war opponent of the us'.


you show some incredible lack of knowledge. the fact that many americans can not relate to a rider who does not speak english as well as they do is an embarrasment to most europeans feelings.

you can like someone or dislike but when you show so mush ignorance, i feel i need to speak up.

 

[ManInFull]

Guys at versus sort of stare at one another after an AC interview and wonder how they are gonna program the next 5 years around this guy. OLN is toast already.

Yeah, I am only concerned because Versus/OLN will stop broadcasting it in the US if there aren't enough psuedo-fans in the US who want to watch it. Most of the psuedo-fans are already anti-Contador--they don't like his "El Pistelro" hand gesture and they believe that he wasn't a good teammate of the greatest American cyclist ever, LA.

AC could endear himself a little more if he would speak to the interviewers in English. I don't know if he knows English or not--maybe he just isn't comfortable enough to use it in public. It doesn't matter to me, but I think that has an effect on how Americans feel. Most of my friends who are cycling fans pull for American cyclists or a foreigner who speaks English.

I'm in France right now and it's interesting to see guys like Cadel Evans speak in French to the interviewers.

 

[ManInFull]

Yes. I am the only person in the entire world that is a fan of AC's racing style.

Oh, I am also one of the few American cycling fans who love AC. I'm on a cycling tour here in France right now. Every American, except me, in my group is pulling for Schelck. They hate the "El Pistelro" salute and they probably hate him for last year's feud--but they don't say that. I'm not sure why people make such a fuss over something as meaningless as his salute. The salute maybe a big thing in Spain and or Europe--so maybe it's a cultural thing.

 

[hfer07]

For many Americans, it is difficult to relate to a sportsman who doesn't speak English. Add to that fact the situation where many Americans idolize Armstrong and he had that over-dramatized feud with Contador last year. Throw in a victory salute that is almost unanimously agreed upon as being kind of annoying. Just for a little extra he is sponsored by a former cold-war opponent of the US.

Summed up, you get an athlete that will find it very difficult to endear himself to American fans and sponsors.

just another LA fanboy heartbroken & spitting out poison on someone who has beaten in all aspects your Idol.....
but what matters here is the level of ignorance you're showing, and even more the embarrassment of the American image you're portraying with that kind of statement....

 

[Benotti69]

Fleche has an arrow.
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So why cant Contador have a pistol?
.
What does Cadel have? Ant poison?
.

Cadel carries a little dog in his back pocket that he throws in the air and catches in his mouth......

 

[scribe]

Oh, I am also one of the few American cycling fans who love AC. I'm on a cycling tour here in France right now. Every American, except me, in my group is pulling for Schelck. They hate the "El Pistelro" salute and they probably hate him for last year's feud--but they don't say that. I'm not sure why people make such a fuss over something as meaningless as his salute. The salute maybe a big thing in Spain and or Europe--so maybe it's a cultural thing.

The pistol salute is a rather transparent marketing strategy that is flat-out corny

 

[lagartija]

no. He has a mousey voice and disposition.

wow disposition also, i can only assume you feel that way due to your lack of language skills, pls correct if im wrong on that account........

but do enlighten us whom do you like ? and lets keep it to the tour this time around

 

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wow disposition also, i can only assume you feel that way due to your lack of language skills, pls correct if im wrong on that account........

but do enlighten us whom do you like ? and lets keep it to the tour this time around

I like a bunch of them, hate a few of them. Where they are from doesn't matter.

 

[Delicato]

david, i usually like your posts but this one is really ignorant. almost stupid. kazakhstan never was 'cold war opponent of the us'.


you show some incredible lack of knowledge. the fact that many americans can not relate to a rider who does not speak english as well as they do is an embarrasment to most europeans feelings.

you can like someone or dislike but when you show so mush ignorance, i feel i need to speak up.

Wasn't Kazakhstan a part of USSR and a base for many nuclear missiles and a space-launching site?

 

[ManInFull]

The pistol salute is a rather transparent marketing strategy that is flat-out corny

Possibly. But, is that really enough to "hate" or "dislike" him as a cyclist? Sounds petty to me. I think it's more than that for many cycling fans, especially Americans. But, they will not admit what it actually is.

 

[python]

Wasn't Kazakhstan a part of USSR and a base for many nuclear missiles and had a space-launching site?

where did he mention ussr ?

 

[RedheadDane]

I suspect most people, American or otherwise finds it easier to relate to someone they can easily understand, and it's an added bonus if they're actually from your own country.

Subtitles are your friends!

 

[Deagol]

I suspect most people, American or otherwise finds it easier to relate to someone they can easily understand, and it's an added bonus if they're actually from your own country.

Slightly off topic, but I heard Tyler Farrar give an interview in what I believe was Flemish after the Renshaw incident.

 

[scribe]

Possibly. But, is that really enough to "hate" or "dislike" him as a cyclist? Sounds petty to me. I think it's more than that for many cycling fans, especially Americans. But, they will not admit what it actually is.

he's got enough fans. The uber AC fans tend to take it VERY seriously when someone doesn't toe the line of fandom. It wears thin quickly.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Forget all this man love. Just love cycling. Far more sane.

 

[Deagol]

Forget all this man love. Just love cycling. Far more sane.

my earlier point exactly.....