Stef Clement vs Bouhanni

La Flamme Rouge
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Stef Clement said at NOS that Nacer Bouhanni made his team "pork free" because of his religious belief. He also did not allow any women to work at Cofidis on days he was racing

SpecialGuestStar wrote:

Clements pretty vocal isn't he - he cast big doubts on Roglics Giro win

I cast a lot of doubts on it too seeing as he came third

No tA Doctor wrote:

Clement is well in the wrong here. His retraction ("I was just repeating something I heard, you should check") manages to paint himself as victim of this, rather than someone who uncritically spread a racist rumour.

It's in the context of them sitting around a table with wine and whiskey and he's just chatting sh!t.

It's only when a lazy journo picks it up, translates the comment and takes it out of context then it becomes 'wrong'.

You could say he shouldn't repeat rumours that he's heard, but the point was that was the rumour he had heard in the peloton.

The way it's delivered gives it the context that it's not a 'massive accusation'.

It's a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.

More generally, I have noticed that a huge part of French and English cycling reporting is having a Dutch speaker watch the Dutch and Belgian coverage and write out the interesting nuggets as news. I've lost count of the amount of times where there will be some documentary where guys are just chatting around the table and 2 days later the new bits have surfaced on cyclingnews or whatever.