The old "feeling really good" stories

[Rb2112]

Don't you love the old "feeling really good" recycled (no pun intended) dribble stories year after year on this website and others. This rider or that rider is "really feeling good" this year and THIS will be the year. Heck, my grandmother is 79 years old and she still feels really good, but I don't think she'll be winning a 5K run anytime soon. If I were to go back 5 years (no make that 10-15 years), the same old stories are recycled year after year. I won't name names-but you know who they are.

-They always occur at about this time year after year.
-It's the same riders year after year
-The riders who make these comments never do anything and/or epic fail.

I can relate with optimism, but please just win something AND then tell us how great you were feeling leading up to the race.

You really have to admire the riders who just keep their mouths shut and let their legs do the talking.

 

[L'arriviste]

I sympathise with you. It's difficult I suppose to say anything with any degree of novelty in pro cycling, a sport with a long-established format that's generally inhabited by rather dull personalities.

"How's the condition?"
[Shrugs shoulders]
"The condition is good."

Then mix in the increasing levels of PR involvement and even the stalest of remarks is curtailed to a monosyllabic yes/no.

If you weren't reading this forum late last spring, you may not have been around to enjoy a lively discussion on Mark Cavendish and his big mouth. It was generally agreed that, whether you loved or hated the fellow, his extraordinary incapacity for self-censorship was quite refreshing.

However as the season wore on and Cavendish finally started to rack up the wins and spill a few tears to boot, we started to see his unfortunate but perhaps inevitable lurch towards the verbal safety of praising the team and an array of other cultural platitudes.

Every generation needs to find a Chiapucci, a Cipollini or a Cavendish. A likeable rogue who won't think of a dictaphone as a gun to the head.

 

[Christian]

Well it worked out for Nick Nuyens this year, right?

I guess it might have to do with motivation ... even though we might not believe it, the riders have to motivate themselves and hope for some wins and not just another season to forget

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

Don't you love the old "feeling really good" recycled (no pun intended) dribble stories year after year on this website and others. This rider or that rider is "really feeling good" this year and THIS will be the year. Heck, my grandmother is 79 years old and she still feels really good, but I don't think she'll be winning a 5K run anytime soon. If I were to go back 5 years (no make that 10-15 years), the same old stories are recycled year after year. I won't name names-but you know who they are.

-They always occur at about this time year after year.
-It's the same riders year after year
-The riders who make these comments never do anything and/or epic fail.

I can relate with optimism, but please just win something AND then tell us how great you were feeling leading up to the race.

You really have to admire the riders who just keep their mouths shut and let their legs do the talking.

Yes, and its counter-point 'stomach problems' 'allergies' and 'didn't have the legs' as the excuses afterwards when despite 'feeling really good' they've finished 163.

Still, its better than the reprinting of press releases that passes for 'journalism'

 

[mulletCobra]

At least it's not the same ole "We gotta go out there and give 110%. We want to do good. We hope we do good. I think we'll do good." that you get with most american sport interview. The only exception I can think of is Bart Scott's "CANT WAIT" interview. It's worth searching out.