Moron of the year!

[El Pistolero]

I want to vote Cadel Evans for moving to BMC.
Complains he doesn't get team support at Lotto and then goes to a team that couldn't even support him in the Grand Tours. You'd think a world champion could go to a decent team...
Instead I voted for Phil because he knows nothing of cycling.

 

[rhubroma]

The Basque sports federation president for stating that the fans should have to pay to watch races.

 

[SiAp1984]

AC, no doubt. 4th year in a row or so 8)

 

[Cobblestoned]

And the winner is of course:

Floyt Landiz

closely followed by Graham Watson



Sorry Alberto, just bronze or third. Still space to improve for all time "greatest" apologizes.

 

[The Hitch]

It's the other way around. Costa just grabbed the wheel, after being attacked by Barredo. Check this video, where you can see the latter coming from the side with the wheel in his hand. Crazy stuff. Barredo for the moron win!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAEf9hv0v4s (you probably have to log on to YouTube to see the video, though)

edit: Obviously, Pat McQuaid - or whoever's pulling the strings at UCI - is the true moron, but that goes without saying.

Yeah. I thought it was Barredo so was confused by the picture, but i thought the picture was proof that its the other way round.

thanks for clearing that up.

Mcquaid makes Sepp Blatter look a total genius, the guy is clearly an utter idiot.

Fresh from wrecking the track cycling programme and now his ultra dumb comments on the Giro just says it all.

Dont be fooled. Sepp quickly realised the competition and this was his rebuttal.

"If gay people go to the 2022 world cup, they shouldnt engage in certain activities, ha ha ha ha ha"

 

[The Hitch]

Mcquaid makes Sepp Blatter look a total genius, the guy is clearly an utter idiot.

Fresh from wrecking the track cycling programme and now his ultra dumb comments on the Giro just says it all.

Dont be fooled. Sepp quickly realised the competition and this was his rebuttal.

"If gay people go to the 2022 world cup, they shouldnt engage in certain activities, ha ha ha ha ha"

 

[El Pistolero]

And the winner is of course:

Floyt Landiz

closely followed by Graham Watson



Sorry Alberto, just bronze or third. Still space to improve for all time "greatest" apologizes.

What about Frank vdb and Ivan Basso? Surely, contador's excuse isn't as lame as those.

 

[Christian]

Bjarne Riis - did a lot of things wrong but was also wronged in some ways
Brad Wiggins - really annoying for the most part but admitted to behaving like a moron in the end
Michael Rasmussen - really annoying as always but I guess that's his right

Biggest moron in my opinion:

Alberto Contador. Got completely ripped off by his so-called "friend" who pretended to have brought him the finest steak from the best cow they could find in all of Spain, when really he forgot about it and got it last minute in a dark alley in the port of god-knows-where from a smuggler in exchange for a bottle of Calvados and 12 packs of Camel Light.

Or he doped. Either way - complete moron.

 

[theyoungest]

Alberto Contador. Got completely ripped off by his so-called "friend" who pretended to have brought him the finest steak from the best cow they could find in all of Spain, when really he forgot about it and got it last minute in a dark alley in the port of god-knows-where from a smuggler in exchange for a bottle of Calvados and 12 packs of Camel Light.

Or he doped. Either way - complete moron.

Whatever he comes up with, it's more believable than F. Schleck's story about the Fuentes transaction.

 

[The Hitch]

Whatever he comes up with, it's more believable than F. Schleck's story about the Fuentes transaction.

My thoughts as well.

 

[Christian]

Whatever he comes up with, it's more believable than F. Schleck's story about the Fuentes transaction.

I'm just saying - his friend ripped him off, or he doped. I'd feel like a moron.

Don't really see what the Fränk Schleck case has to do with it

OR: the biggest moron of the year is actually Alberto's friend. You agree to do your buddy a favour and what does he do - throw you under the bus. And now you're known all over Spain for being the guy who buys cheap lousy meat and cost the national hero his reputation and most likely his TdF title.

 

[montagna lunga]

I voted other in deference to the pollster "ausfan"

 

[skidmark]

maybe i'll ask Martin to put my name in the poll because this is the 2nd time a poster has said this.

aww, c'mon ACF, you had to know that if whoever created this poll would receive that kind of smartass answer from at least someone...

...anyway, my 'other' is actually Graham Watson. What a tool.

 

[flicker]

I voted 'other' for Spartacus for putting an end to the racing in the Ardennes stage of the TdF.

Both stupid and the kind of thing I would expect an 8-12 year old kid to do 'Its my ball and you're not playing with it' etc

As much as I appreciate Cancellera, I think he needs a pay-back by that action.

Hopefully some patron in pro cycling will make him or his team(teamates) suffer for that action. I love Andy and wanted him to do well in the tour but not with that negative action Cancellera took.

Contador takes the cake with his u-tube apology to Andy, hand holding with Andy during the decisive climbs and his eating of Spanish er Uraguay er Brazillian er Argentinian meat. Moron and pathetic together with his new found buddy Riis.

 

[Hugh Januss]

OK this is a dumb poll, if only for the reason that it is impossible to separate the contenders at the top.
Clearly McQuack should get it based upon the full body of his work over the course of the year, however Brodeal raises a very good point in nominating the mad twitterer. Riis, White, Contador all excellent choices as well. But over the course of the year there have certainly been a great many others. Too many to choose just one.
Why on this very forum there are more than a dozen contenders. Hitch, for
convincing ACF to open that stupid thread about meeting Cuddles, and ACF for not recognizing the amount of fodder he was providing (and in fact this may have been Hitch's motivation, so maybe his name comes off the list?) for jokes at his expense, are only the tip of the iceberg.
Perhaps a more concise poll might be "Who in pro cycling was not a complete moron this year?"

 

[blaxland]

This title goes to Chris White for building up our dreams(Aussies)then shattering them at the same time...Who knows what damage this has done for future Australian registered teams?Hopefully this all is just a bad dream and will be resolved soon...Was so looking forward to supporting our own Australian team.

 

[The Hitch]

OK this is a dumb poll, if only for the reason that it is impossible to separate the contenders at the top.
Clearly McQuack should get it based upon the full body of his work over the course of the year, however Brodeal raises a very good point in nominating the mad twitterer. Riis, White, Contador all excellent choices as well. But over the course of the year there have certainly been a great many others. Too many to choose just one.
Why on this very forum there are more than a dozen contenders. Hitch, for
convincing ACF to open that stupid thread about meeting Cuddles, and ACF for not recognizing the amount of fodder he was providing (and in fact this may have been Hitch's motivation, so maybe his name comes off the list?) for jokes at his expense, are only the tip of the iceberg.
Perhaps a more concise poll might be "Who in pro cycling was not a complete moron this year?"

The ACF cuddles thread. Are you kidding It provided some great responces from Maserati youngest and even flicker as well as others which is exactly what i hoped.

But i will take advantage of the fact that ive just been nominated (hence ive become untouchable) to make a list of my own about posters who deserve the title.

If your going down you might as well take others with you

10 THee Chisa. For saying Wiggins would top 3 the tour, Menchov and Samu wouldnt come top 20. Regained some honour by not showing himself again afterwards.

9 Chris E for saying Kenyans are fast because they run away from lions.

8 ACF (do i need to say more?)

7 Sportzchick for claiming that the whole forum was having wet dreams about Cadel failing right after everyone praised Cadel for his great performance.

6 Dekker Tifosi. For claiming Vincenzo Nibali would 100000% not win the Vuelta, never win a GT and beating up verbally on everyone who made the slightest suggestion otherwise. Howd that work out


5 Flicker for a lot of crap. On the other hand looking at his posts you have to admire that he is still here. I mean i think pretty much everybody thinks "not again" when they see him making a post about Armstrong, and yet the mods cant touch him.

4 The Hog for guaranteeing Amrstrongs non participation in the Tour, etc.

Oh and for claiming no team would take Cav and that teenage girls dont like Cav and have pictures of Tom Boonen instead.

3 Davis 123 for a bunch of crap about the UK.

2 Francois the Postman and Barrus for accepting positions as moderators.

1 Myself again, for my shamefull ammount of posts on this forum. Its going down though. And for my misunderstanding of Cavs quote. And for hijacking a lot of threads. And for my getting Moondance banned. And for being mean to Gilbert fanboys like El Pistolero. For creating a thread expressing surprise that Rabo bought a non dutchie (forgetting all the others). For thinking Rui costa hit barredo with the wheel.
And finally for enjoying this brutal sport that is this thing of ours, and cheering as masochist nut jobs like Jens Voigt put on the pain. For shame

Forgive me father for i have sinned.

Feel free to add to these lists.

 

[ergmonkey]

Perhaps a more concise poll might be "Who in pro cycling was not a complete moron this year?"

Vincenzo Nibali.

Riding as the "number two" leader on his team, he managed to have two breakthrough grand tour rides without ****ing anybody off.

 

[ergmonkey]

And Vino.

Everybody was ready to hate on him for anything and everything. Instead, he constantly kicked *** and a teammate of his won the Tour (maybe...).

 

[auscyclefan94]

The ACF cuddles thread. Are you kidding It provided some great responces from Maserati youngest and even flicker as well as others which is exactly what i hoped.

But i will take advantage of the fact that ive just been nominated (hence ive become untouchable) to make a list of my own about posters who deserve the title.

If your going down you might as well take others with you

1 THee Chisa. For saying Wiggins would top 3 the tour, Menchov and Samu wouldnt come top 20. Regained some honour by not showing himself again afterwards.

2 Chris E for saying Kenyans are fast because they run away from lions.

3 ACF (do i need to say more?)

4 Sportzchick for claiming that the whole forum was having wet dreams about Cadel failing right after everyone praised Cadel for his great performance.

5 Dekker Tifosi. For claiming Vincenzo Nibali would 100000% not win the Vuelta, never win a GT and beating up verbally on everyone who made the slightest suggestion otherwise. Howd that work out


6 Flicker for a lot of crap. On the other hand looking at his posts you have to admire that he is still here. I mean i think pretty much everybody thinks "not again" when they see him making a post about Armstrong, and yet the mods cant touch him.

7 The Hog for guaranteeing Amrstrongs non participation in the Tour, etc.

Oh and for claiming no team would take Cav and that teenage girls dont like Cav and have pictures of Tom Boonen instead.

8 Davis 123 for a bunch of crap about the UK.

9 Francois the Postman and Barrus for accepting positions as moderators.

10 Myself again, for my shamefull ammount of posts on this forum. Its going down though. And for my misunderstanding of Cavs quote. And for hijacking a lot of threads. And for my getting Moondance banned. And for being mean to Gilbert fanboys like El Pistolero. For creating a thread expressing surprise that Rabo bought a non dutchie (forgetting all the others). For thinking Rui costa hit barredo with the wheel.
And finally for enjoying this brutal sport that is this thing of ours, and cheering as masochist nut jobs like Jens Voigt put on the pain. For shame

Forgive me father for i have sinned.

Feel free to add to these lists.

maybe you should add yourself to the top of that list for making an idiotic thread about something Cav said of which you were completely wrong. Epic fail!

Other: Cadel Evans.

He has a silly squeaky voice and is weird.

Trolling.

 

[Moondance]

1 Myself again, for my shamefull ammount of posts on this forum. Its going down though. And for my misunderstanding of Cavs quote. And for hijacking a lot of threads. And for my getting Moondance banned. And for being mean to Gilbert fanboys like El Pistolero. For creating a thread expressing surprise that Rabo bought a non dutchie (forgetting all the others). For thinking Rui costa hit barredo with the wheel.
And finally for enjoying this brutal sport that is this thing of ours, and cheering as masochist nut jobs like Jens Voigt put on the pain. For shame

Forgive me father for i have sinned.

Feel free to add to these lists.

Dude, that was my bad all the way. Maybe you gave me some very slight encouragement, but I must take responsibility for my own actions.

I am, however, glad that this was the only context in which I made your list

 

[Hugh Januss]

Why on this very forum there are more than a dozen contenders. Hitch, for
convincing ACF to open that stupid thread about meeting Cuddles, and ACF for not recognizing the amount of fodder he was providing (and in fact this may have been Hitch's motivation, so maybe his name comes off the list?) for jokes at his expense, are only the tip of the iceberg.

The ACF cuddles thread. Are you kidding It provided some great responces from Maserati youngest and even flicker as well as others which is exactly what i hoped.

But i will take advantage of the fact that ive just been nominated (hence ive become untouchable) to make a list of my own about posters who deserve the title.


9 Chris E for saying Kenyans are fast because they run away from lions.


7 Sportzchick for claiming that the whole forum was having wet dreams about Cadel failing right after everyone praised Cadel for his great performance.



Feel free to add to these lists.

I had already taken you off the hook so if anyone is listening, you are fair game again.
I am confident that Chris was being sarcastic, if only because he almost always was.
I had forgotten about Sportchick's little hissy, that was just awesome.

 

[auscyclefan94]

The Hitch is the cancer of the forum.

 

[hrotha]

maybe you should add yourself to that list for making an idiotic thread about something Cav said of which you were completely wrong. Epic fail!

Hahahaha, did you even read his post? This is glorious.

 

[pmcg76]

The ACF cuddles thread. Are you kidding It provided some great responces from Maserati youngest and even flicker as well as others which is exactly what i hoped.

But i will take advantage of the fact that ive just been nominated (hence ive become untouchable) to make a list of my own about posters who deserve the title.

If your going down you might as well take others with you

10 THee Chisa. For saying Wiggins would top 3 the tour, Menchov and Samu wouldnt come top 20. Regained some honour by not showing himself again afterwards.

9 Chris E for saying Kenyans are fast because they run away from lions.

8 ACF (do i need to say more?)

7 Sportzchick for claiming that the whole forum was having wet dreams about Cadel failing right after everyone praised Cadel for his great performance.

6 Dekker Tifosi. For claiming Vincenzo Nibali would 100000% not win the Vuelta, never win a GT and beating up verbally on everyone who made the slightest suggestion otherwise. Howd that work out


5 Flicker for a lot of crap. On the other hand looking at his posts you have to admire that he is still here. I mean i think pretty much everybody thinks "not again" when they see him making a post about Armstrong, and yet the mods cant touch him.

4 The Hog for guaranteeing Amrstrongs non participation in the Tour, etc.

Oh and for claiming no team would take Cav and that teenage girls dont like Cav and have pictures of Tom Boonen instead.

3 Davis 123 for a bunch of crap about the UK.

2 Francois the Postman and Barrus for accepting positions as moderators.

1 Myself again, for my shamefull ammount of posts on this forum. Its going down though. And for my misunderstanding of Cavs quote. And for hijacking a lot of threads. And for my getting Moondance banned. And for being mean to Gilbert fanboys like El Pistolero. For creating a thread expressing surprise that Rabo bought a non dutchie (forgetting all the others). For thinking Rui costa hit barredo with the wheel.
And finally for enjoying this brutal sport that is this thing of ours, and cheering as masochist nut jobs like Jens Voigt put on the pain. For shame

Forgive me father for i have sinned.

Feel free to add to these lists.

Are you suggesting we start a most moronic poster thread then, in fairness you got most of the candidates anyway. Others-

Polish-see Flicker but more ironic

Speedway-for only ever writing posts that chide people who diss Lance whilst simulataneously trying to claim some high ground as being better than all posters who do so.

You know what, even based on this thread alone, ACF94 would still win