Race Radio said:
I understand Thor's reluctance to speak publicly but he still could have spoke in private to Norway's ADA. He also could have just said "No Comment" when it came to Lance instead of defending him. He was also with Lance in the day's following Tyler's 60 Minutes interview. He knew Tyler was telling the truth but hung out with lance as his media team set out to decimate Tyler.
Of course the Lance stuff is only part of it. Going after Bassons, EBH, JV, all seem very petty. He went after Riis in his press conference, saying he did not sign with Saxo because of him. He forgets that he signed with BMC at the height of all their issues. Not just Och etc. but also a member of their staff had been arrested with 200 doses of EPO. Thor had no problem with this.....likely because they gave him 2,500,000 reasons not to
This is your interpretation of the situation. But I think you are interpreting from worst intent. This is one of the reasons I feel it's too early to be as bombastic as you are.
I too would have liked him to talk with ADN, but seing as he had been in the sport for so long, and might have suspicions about UCI involvment, he might not trust "the authorities". Or he didn't want to be involved in any of that stuff(Shultz defence).
I don't remember interviews done 3 years ago. But I find it plausible that saying no comment would create even more questions. No comment = I have something to hide. So that doesn't sound like such a good idea either.
As for hanging out with Lance while his media team were setting out to decimate Tyler. What does that have to do with Thor? I don't think he had any idea about what Lance was planning in the future, how could he have known if Thor didn't ask more about the subject.
The Bassons comment was mentioned in the context of Thor believing Bassons said it was impossible to win clean in cycling. Thor competes clean, hence Bassons is wrong in Thor's eyes because Thor won. Now I don't know in what context Bassons comments came, but I would imagine he was right in regards to winning grand tours. This might have not occurred to Thor who fired off of some headline he had read somewhere.
I didn't interpret anything as going after EBH. He told a story about his perception of the race. I don't see either one of them doing anything wrong. Whether Thor did the right thing or not is between him and EBH.
As for JV, all Thor said that could be interpreted negatively was that he seemed to not respond to his riders(How often do team mergers go well?). All he did was tweet out stuff. He started off talking about JV as someone who he looked forward to working with since he rode with him in CA and was something of a color splat. Or if talking google translate "splash of color".
I did not get to see the Riis part because the channel I was pvring switched to the news.
But he did mention something relating to BMC when he said something about why he didn't talk or something. I don't remember what, but it was something about Och and the mechanic(Viveane or something?).
What I have written here is my interpretation of what he said, and also relating that to his context at the time.
Now he does seem to have some views that are quite inconsistent. This is very common for us humans, we tend to be hypocritical about something. We don't necessarily realize what views negate other views. We are all hypocrites in some way if all our views are laid out.
I think I disagree with some of what he said, but I'll need to read the book to be sure of what he means.
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