blackcat said:
ray j willings said:
Doping his still rife, Nicole Cooke told it like it is.
implicit in this, nicole cooke calls out doping, ergo, she is a good guy. just like paula radcliffe, she stole the page from paula's book.
That book has some advice on that page - keep taking the suckers - there is loads more to be made after your career. That high-life in Monaco and those lawyers are huge bills.
[ Great to see the way the press are still at Mo Farah - number one story on the BBC News at 10 last night. Daly tweeted in response to Mo's "outrage" and need to get back to the USA to ask his coach some serious questions, that Mo and Salhaszzar had recived written notification of the allegations over a month ago, obviously as Wells had done. Wells hit the "call a lawyer" button in fact get me Paula's lawyer ! Mo and Alberto obviously decided to bluff it out. ]
Cooke - a fact - here in the UK there is just THE BIGGEST gravy-train running for cycling pundits to drool on about anything and everything - the theme being BC/Sky are the greatest, beating dirty johnny foreigner - led by two gallant knights of the realm, Sir David and the so cool, Sir Brad. ITV Channel 4, even in Wales S4C and at the top of the tree Sky and the BBC are all delivering. Any ex rider who has achieved anything can get a very lucrative gig. The country is short on good ex roadies to give a proper insight. That dandy - St David is now sharing with us his thoughts and extending his confidence trick and on the women's side there is virtually no ex star. Last year the BBC had Victoria Pendleton doing the commentary on the Commonwealth Games Road Race ! Let's have Sir Chris Hoy give his insights on climbing the Ventoux from the Carpentras side under race conditions !
On the Athletics at the BBC it is Cram, Andy Norman's triple jumper Edwards, Paula, Gunnel and a whole bunch of them.
Cooke will hardly have finished her career flush with cash and so the driver to get on that gravy-train will be greater than for lots of others and yet she has not stepped onto it to add to the BC/Sky worship. I can't recall seeing her doing pundit gigs even with the hype about the Women's tour of GB and La Course. After all - who would she be commenting on ?
ray j willings said:
.....some of her GB team mates are still friends, others are not "the ones she knows are doping " and she won't dope so has retired as her career is never going to reach the heights
And yet it is not like she has walked away and is having nothing to do with the sport, that Guardian piece the other month had Cound hitting the keyboard with the "Froome wants 24 hour testing" smoke screen.
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