Why would Cavendish get upset about being asked about LA?

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  • Nick Fitt
    Nick Fitt Posts: 381
    Dolan Driver wrote:
    He could he have just said; " Look, I've answered that question already and I'm not commenting any further, thank you."

    I suppose "Fook off" is a little less taxing on the grey matter for little Mark. I'm not sure why he needed to call in the heavies, though. It looks like the diva attitude of some of the Premier League players is invading the peloton.

    DD.

    Didn't Lance do just this same thing to the press if they asked the wrong questions! :lol::lol::lol:
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    phil s wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    And many people will think, 'that journalist was a bit of a prick, good on you Cav.'. Who is right?

    Possibly, but I'm sure more would actually like to hear what Cav really thinks about the biggest thing to affect his sport. Wouldn't you?
    I've already heard it a few times and saw his tweet a few days ago saying he would make his feelings known soon. It's not like his opinion is going to change the way I think about the situation, so whilst interesting to know, I'm not going to lose sleep over not knowing somebody else's opinion on it. Like I said above, I can see it from both sides. The guy is entitled to ask the question but must accept that he may get a volley of abuse. Part and parcel of being a journalist I guess.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Hey, who wants links to the 42347 clips of Cavendish NOT telling a journalist to fukc off?





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    Anyone...?
  • phil s
    phil s Posts: 1,128
    I don't know what you do for a job, SBF, but if someone behaved like that to you while doing your work how would you feel? Do you think it's ok for folk to pop off at bus drivers or shop assistants? Would you want your kid seeing that kind of behaviour?
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,431
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Hey, who wants links to the 42347 clips of Cavendish NOT telling a journalist to fukc off?
    Anyone...?


    There ain't that many :wink:
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,552
    Doo the research - this was posted about yesterday. Cav had just done a big set of questions many of which were are Armstrong. This this jumped up little twerp asks him the same question he was asked 10 minutes ago..... Probably the 20th time he'd been asked the same dumb question that day, but the journo hadn't been listening.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    TailWindHome wrote:
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Hey, who wants links to the 42347 clips of Cavendish NOT telling a journalist to fukc off?
    Anyone...?


    There ain't that many :wink:


    Ok, there are 9...but they're 9 REALLY good ones... :wink:
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    phil s wrote:
    I don't know what you do for a job, SBF, but if someone behaved like that to you while doing your work how would you feel? Do you think it's ok for folk to pop off at bus drivers or shop assistants? Would you want your kid seeing that kind of behaviour?
    Not sure what I do for a living has got to do with it. A journalist is paid to ask difficult questions that could deserve such behaviour. A bus driver is paid to drive a bus not get under someone's skin. I wouldn't want my kid to see any porn or a film glorifying violence. Do you also campaign to have those banned? And once again, do you like Cavendish?
  • carl_p
    carl_p Posts: 989
    Cav in more genial mood, and pleasing the belgians by letting Boonen win...

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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Not sure what I do for a living has got to do with it. A journalist is paid to ask difficult questions that could deserve such behaviour. A bus driver is paid to drive a bus not get under someone's skin. I wouldn't want my kid to see any porn or a film glorifying violence. Do you also campaign to have those banned? And once again, do you like Cavendish?

    You know what Phil does, right?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    iainf72 wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Not sure what I do for a living has got to do with it. A journalist is paid to ask difficult questions that could deserve such behaviour. A bus driver is paid to drive a bus not get under someone's skin. I wouldn't want my kid to see any porn or a film glorifying violence. Do you also campaign to have those banned? And once again, do you like Cavendish?

    You know what Phil does, right?
    Couldn't give a flying to be honest, won't change my opinion of him or the situation.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    iainf72 wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Not sure what I do for a living has got to do with it. A journalist is paid to ask difficult questions that could deserve such behaviour. A bus driver is paid to drive a bus not get under someone's skin. I wouldn't want my kid to see any porn or a film glorifying violence. Do you also campaign to have those banned? And once again, do you like Cavendish?

    You know what Phil does, right?

    Is he a bus driver?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    greasedscotsman wrote:

    Is he a bus driver?

    Heh. No. But I'm pretty sure he has seen more of Cavendish than anyone else on here.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Hey Guys, Guys!! Iain knows something Guys!!

    Is there anyone that doesn't know? Go tell them quick!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    iainf72 wrote:
    Heh. No. But I'm pretty sure he has seen more of Cavendish than anyone else on here.

    Is he Peta Todd?
  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    Ex soignuer out for revenge?
    You live and learn. At any rate, you live
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    He's not Heinrich Haussler, is he?
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,431
    He's a regional sales rep for Quick Step.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Great! I'd like a price on a new kitchen floor
  • gattocattivo
    gattocattivo Posts: 500
    RichN95 wrote:
    Maybe some of these journalists that are now demanding to ask questions should have spoken up themselves in 1999-2005, but they pedalled what they believed was a lie to their public in exchange for access and circulation. Now they demand the likes of Cavendish, who was a school at the time, answer all questions so these journalists can feel absolved of their own sins.

    Is this actually true? I read his auto-biog and don't recall any mention of him being a school.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I'm at a loss to see how this can generate so much chat.


    Every single cyclist on Twitter had been moaning about the same. Hoy did. Armistead. Etc etc.

    I'd get irritated. He was being asked about something that hadn't been aired, about a guy he had little to do with other than having competed against him when he was rubbish. He wasn't even a direct rival in any way.

    What else is there to say beyond sh!t stirring?

    I guess if a journo is asking then we know the answer to that.
    _
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    iainf72 wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:

    Is he a bus driver?

    Heh. No. But I'm pretty sure he has seen more of Cavendish than anyone else on here.


    Was he Cav's dinner lady when he was a school?
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Great! I'd like a price on a new kitchen floor

    And another thing - and this possibly might deserve it's own thread (admittedly probably wouldn't amount to much more than a 2 or 3 page-er, if that) - but I persuaded my missus that we should be buying from those companies that sponsor cycling wherever possible, so we bought some Quick Step flooring. All I'll say is that it doesn't quite look like it did it the fukcing photos and I haven't stopped hearing about it (oh, how I muster a bleak smile as her biting words bounce off the laminate)...
    Anyone with some more positive (or not) cycling sponsor products/services experiences?
    I've got some pretty decent kit from Endura, for e.g....
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    I was tempted to tap Tinkov for an interest-free loan but the thought of what might happen if I was late with a payment, put me off :(
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Great! I'd like a price on a new kitchen floor

    F**k Off! F**k Off! F**k Off!

    oh Oh OH!!!! Jort, this bloke just keeps asking about floors! Get him out it's all he can talk about!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    ..
    Anyone with some more positive (or not) cycling sponsor products/services experiences?
    I've got some pretty decent kit from Endura, for e.g....

    Ha hah, Yeah my Endura kit is ok

    My HTC phone is crap though, keeps flipping breaking!

    Garmin edge is ok too, and I ve only good words about the discovery channel!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Bogginsthedog
    Bogginsthedog Posts: 3
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/wales/21090501

    Geraint seems to be speaking sense. (hope the link works - I'm new to these parts)

    I bought some QuickStep flooring because of their cycling sponsorship. Pretty nice although I did need to pay extra and meet a dodgy guy up a mountain to get hold of the good stuff.. :wink:
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    My mate had a Saeco coffee machine. He got it because of Cipo.

    He thought it was great until he decided to impress a new lady-friend with a cappuccino early one Sunday morning: let's just say that boiling spitty water thing that froths the milk and his bare bo!!ocks had a bit of a set-to... :shock:
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Bogginsthedog wrote:
    I bought some QuickStep flooring because of their cycling sponsorship. Pretty nice although I did need to pay extra and meet a dodgy guy up a mountain to get hold of the good stuff.. :wink:

    It wasn't St Moritz, was it?
    Some mates and I were riding through there in June 2002 (I think) and spotted the forefathers of the Quick Step team, Domo Farm Frites, with Museeuw and Vandenbroucke training in the mountains there. The ludicrous jokes we made about there being some sort of "medical" regime led by a Swiss Dr Nick from The Simpsons aren't so far-fetched anymore. We laughed all the way to the hotel bar, where it was £9 for a small beer...
  • Walter White
    Walter White Posts: 238
    ddraver wrote:
    rodgers73 wrote:
    Bit of an overreaction though. Watch any press conference and sportsmen are asked about stuff other than just themselves...

    Its an over reaction if it's the first time

    but what it it's the second

    or the third

    fourth

    fifth

    sixth

    seventh

    ...

    ...

    ...

    What if every press conference you ve given this year has been dominated by someone, you hardly know that has destroyed the reputation of your sport, makes you look stupid and makes people assume you re a cheater just because you ride a bike

    How would you react if he asked the same question again?

    Totally agree, whilst acting a bit of a Diva i can understand why he sick to the back teeth of the subject.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    gattocattivo wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Maybe some of these journalists that are now demanding to ask questions should have spoken up themselves in 1999-2005, but they pedalled what they believed was a lie to their public in exchange for access and circulation. Now they demand the likes of Cavendish, who was a school at the time, answer all questions so these journalists can feel absolved of their own sins.

    Is this actually true? I read his auto-biog and don't recall any mention of him being a school.

    Mark Cavendishh was born on 21 May 1985. So at the latest of Armstrong's wins he was 20. At the first he was 14 - so yes, he was at school. Is this a problem to you?
    Twitter: @RichN95

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