O'Grady non-confession-confession confession

[M Sport]

I give it less than 12 months before he working for GreenEdge again. What a disgrace.

 

[Granville57]

Exclusive interview with CN!!!!!!

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/exclusive-interview-stuart-ogrady-breaks-silence-on-doping

Stuart O'Grady has embarked on a media tour and sat down with Cyclingnews for his first major interview since his retirement and shares exactly what the title means to him personally.

I realize that we're not supposed to quote entirely articles...but this is all there is. No, seriously. These are all the quotes from the "Exclusive interview."

"Battle Scars is a name that is very appropriate to my career it has been one hell of a journey," O'Grady said. "There have been some fantastic moments, and there have been some horrible moments. It's a cycling career that spans over 20 years and I have plenty of scars and seems like an appropriate title considering what's come out."

In the sit-down interview with Cyclingnews on Wednesday, O'Grady said of his time withholding the truth: "I just kind of buried it so far back in my mind because it was just one of those things that I hoped would never surface. It was the darkest period of my career. It was the darkest period of cycling in general."

Since his admission of doping, O'Grady has retreated from public life and told Cyclingnews that he has ridden his bike once since July – a casual ride in Luxembourg with his father and 10-year-old son.

"It's been a big transition, but to be honest I'm really enjoying it. Just being a dad and husband. Being normal," he said.

"I see my bikes in the shed and look at them and just shake my head and say no, not yet… it just symbolizes pain and suffering and a lot of hard work – or Battle Scars."

I can only imagine what the shorter, more condensed, version that he gives to Velonews and Bicycling will look like.


Bravo for the deep insight.

"Exclusive."

 

[the sceptic]

the book title should have been "I only doped once"

I have to say, I dont really mind his doping. His lying doesnt even bother me that much. What really ****es me off is that he is going on a "media tour" to promote his ****ty book full of lies and make even more money from his doping. Just go away dont show your ugly face in cycling again please.

 

[42x16ss]

I give it less than 12 months before he working for GreenEdge again. What a disgrace.

It will be with the Jayco-AIS WT academy guys in Varese, wait and see. Nice and close to his old place in Monaco.

 

[Granville57]

the book title should have been "It's not about the dope."

Fixed that for ya'.

 

[slowspoke]

I can forgive a transgression, what I struggle with is the persistent lying about it and playing people for mugs. Like Nicki Vance:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/report-orica-greenedge-release-vances-anti-doping-review

+10

He does know that people have watched his performances after 98, doesn't he?

 

[Granville57]

He does know that people have watched his performances after 98, doesn't he?

Haven't you heard? None of those riders doped that much. Hell, it didn't even help them very much. Just ask CVV. Even Lance said that he only took a "little" EPO. And Ferrari himself said that Lance probably could've won without the dope.

Which perfectly explains, of course, why the above riders (and many others) suffered through so much internal turmoil. The gut-wrenching, soul-searching, painfully delivered "admissions" were then followed by apologies to all. The shame was palpable. This was not an easy bridge for these lifelong athletes to cross.


But yeah, it wasn't that much dope anyway. It didn't even help them very much. Ho hum.

But oh, the agony when...

they pretty much had to confess because their lies were totally exposed.



Makes perfect sense to me.

 

[Archibald]

Exclusive interview with CN!!!!!!

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/exclusive-interview-stuart-ogrady-breaks-silence-on-doping



I realize that we're not supposed to quote entirely articles...but this is all there is. No, seriously. These are all the quotes from the "Exclusive interview."

not sure which is more annoying just now - stuey's BS or the complete lack of an actual interview under that "exclusive interview" title...

 

[Granville57]

not sure which is more annoying just now - stuey's BS or the complete lack of an actual interview under that "exclusive interview" title...

Notice the headline said "exclusive." Not "actual."

The "actual" interview will likely be subscription based.

 

[mewmewmew13]

Notice the headline said "exclusive." Not "actual."

The "actual" interview will likely be subscription based.

The 'actual' interview will be in VeloNation.com

 

[Dear Wiggo]

not sure which is more annoying just now - stuey's BS or the complete lack of an actual interview under that "exclusive interview" title...

What struck me was it took 2x CN interviewers to do that "interview".

 

[Granville57]

What struck me was it took 2x CN interviewers to do that "interview".

Australian translator?

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Australian translator?

Too bloody right, cobber. Get ya laughing gear around this lot then, eh?

 

[Granville57]

Too bloody right, cobber. Get ya laughing gear around this lot then, eh?

I honestly don't know what that means. Any of it.

But if you look at the two "reporters" who will notice my main man, Zeb Woodpower.

Ask yourself this:
If you owned a publication, of any sort, and someone on your staff was named Zeb Woodpower, wouldn't you want that dude's name attached to near everything that went out?

I know I would.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

The man named as the party hard dude from HK in David Millar's book says the following in another interview on CN:

"I had no idea," he said. "I didn't want to think that the men I was racing against were cheating. I didn't know that a Lance Armstrong or a Matty White was cheating and it all came to me as a complete surprise. All I know is what I've done.

 

[blackcat]

is that Millar or SO Dear Wiggo?

Was Stuey from hongkers too? I thought the Scot only spent his adolescence there when his old man was flying for Singapore Airlines of some international carrier?

no?

Stuey born there too? Or lived there?

 

[Stingray34]

Stuey mate admits he is naive and "had no idea" about everyone doping. Stuey mate thinks we're all naive, too.

If he had no idea about others doping, how did he know it was a dark time in the sport? How did he know it was going on all around him if he didn't have any idea? Did he think only the French doped at Festina?

 

[blackcat]

Stuey was the MVP and VIP at Jaja's cocaine parties, sorry, the potbelge parties in Cannes.

those woulda been some mighty good parties.

 

[blackcat]

Stuey is good mates with Jens. And they were on Gan and Credit Agricole, Stuey woulda been in the bus when Jens decided to bury their dope on the side of the road like a bear $hitting in the woods during the Festina d'affaire, or d'affaire Festina in 1998.

sorry, a bear does not bury his $hit in the woods but a cyclists buries the dope in the woods.

French forests, mixed metaphors, trees from forest, and tortured metaphors. apologeez.

we need a Roger Legeay and JV quote about not doping.

<invoke said quote>

 

[Stingray34]

Stuey was the MVP and VIP at Jaja's cocaine parties, sorry, the potbelge parties in Cannes.

those woulda been some mighty good parties.

If a post-Tour crit promoter ran out of money, Stuey Mate would accept payment in Eccies.

At a race one day I said to a friend, "Mate, Stuey Mate is smokin.," My friend said, "Yeah. He better put that pipe away before commissaires see it."

Stuey Mate's favorite old cycling team was Brooklyn. Reminded him of his favorite kind of rock to smoke.

Stuey Mate gets all excited and has to go to a meeting everytime Breaking Bad comes on TV.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

is that Millar or SO Dear Wiggo?

Was Stuey from hongkers too? I thought the Scot only spent his adolescence there when his old man was flying for Singapore Airlines of some international carrier?

no?

Stuey born there too? Or lived there?

Yeah maybe. I read the book but didn't go back to check the timeline. They were good friends, however, and I seem to remember Millar mentioning them partying to all hours of the night.

I guess I am just not believing the story SO is telling, about knowing about noone else's doping.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

So yes, the party was in Noosa Heads. Racing through the Dark, page #134. So we're to believe David Millar knew no other dopers, and if he did, never ever talked with SO about it.

 

[Bumeington]

"We had pretty much wrapped up the book when my personal situation came out so obviously we had to rewrite it a bit and add a few chapters," he says.

This quote is the one I find the worst. The info came out so we had to change the story, but not too much obviously - if he wasn't going to write the truth before why would he write it now?

 

[blackcat]

Yeah maybe. I read the book but didn't go back to check the timeline. They were good friends, however, and I seem to remember Millar mentioning them partying to all hours of the night.

I guess I am just not believing the story SO is telling, about knowing about noone else's doping.

henk and stuey laffed about it on fast rides during summer in aus in the 90s. they openly talked about it on the rides that fast amateurs could hang on when they were freewheeling in the off season and getting on the p!$$ and the disco bickies

 

[Benotti69]

Why has no one from the sport called out O'Grady? Easy omerta and doping are all still an integral part of the sport.

Where is Talanksy et al shouting O'Grady F**K OFF out of our now clean sport? Not going to happen.