Wiggins is no Botham or Redgrave & Snore De France

[Vikeonabike]

We have an anti cycling journalist here in Peterborough. I think he needs re-educating
Wiggins is no Botham or Redgrave says Alan Swann of the Peterborough Telegraph
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/world-of-sport-wiggins-is-no-redgrave-or-botham-1-4095385

 

[Chuffy]

Don't bother. It's just flamebait to get comments and (possibly) a follow up piece with dickbreath on a bike going 'phew, it's harder than I thought'.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Don't get upset by a man whose life's acheivement is writing for the Peterbrough litter tray liner of choice and apparently doesn't know how to use a space bar.

 

[tigger]

Haven't bothered to read the article - its easily dismissed. Redgrave, yeah great, but rowings as dull as snooker. Botham's ashes - the Aussies bet against themselves quite openly. Big deal

 

[ohnovino]

Don't bother. It's just flamebait to get comments and (possibly) a follow up piece with dickbreath on a bike going 'phew, it's harder than I thought'.

+1

These articles are usually just journalists trolling to get more hits on the website.

 

[Cheddar George]

Yep, usual local newspaper stuff trying to keep the letters page going.

Please don't reply to him.

 

[iLB]

Very clever, insert rude word of your choice here

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

If he's invalidating the TDF due to a history of drug taking then the Olympics is really stuffed!

 

[GrasB]

I'm going to degrade someone else's achievement because I'm a numptie with an axe to grind but I don't have a clue of what it's like to truly apply my self to something difficult & then realise that there are ways to make it a little easier with all the pressure to sucede....

 

[GBC]

There was an article in The Herald earlier this week in a similar ignorant and mean spirited tone. I and at least one other reader criticised it as such and had our comments removed by the moderators.

 

[yello]

He was planning his next piece before he wrote that one. It's nothing but self-promotion, ignore it and he fails.

 

[User482]

If he's invalidating the TDF due to a history of drug taking then the Olympics is really stuffed!

Well, quite. I've made this point before - the men's 100 metres over the last 30 years (to take one example) is littered with drugs cheats.

 

[Boris Bajic]

None of this 'My Sport is Better' stuff is very edifying, wherever it comes from.

I cycle with enthusiasm and I've followed the TdF for decades, but I don't put it above or below any other sport.

Many who've followed it for eight seconds are now very keen to tell me it's the greatest event ever. Last week they said that of Rugby.

I also love soccer, MotoGP and other pursuits or sports. I watched MotoX a few times and it is unbelievably brutal and beautiful. As a spectacle of insanity, there used to be a thing (I only saw it in France) called the montee impossible. Silly, but wonderful. It may still exist, but I am old now.

My own sports were and are not very televisual, so whilst I read about them I rarely watch them.

I find the blind detractors of pro-tour cycling as baffling as the 'there's nothing harder' brigade who support it blindly.

There. I've said it.

 

[Browser]

Cycle racing upsets people because (a) they don't understand it, (b) they don't therefore like it and (c) they haven't sat their flaccid glutes on a bike saddle since the raleight Sun Solo they rode to school on dissolved into it's component ores after they'd discovered scooters/mopeds/cars. Now that spending money on a decent bike has become a status symbol (so I've read) in the same way as owning a BMW/Audi did 20 years ago, hopefully we'll see attitudes start to re-appraise a little.
Oh, I've added my comment to the rest

 

[asterix]

+1

These articles are usually just journalists trolling to get more hits on the website.

Yep, the York Press does it all the time. Anything with a cycling theme. Shan't visit their site, thanks Vikeonabike.