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McEwen mouths off
McEwen mouths off in Switzerland
By Susan Westemeyer Robbie McEwen is not making many friends in Switzerland. According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, the Tour de Suisse stage three winner's ceremony had to wait for him on Monday. Immediately after the stage, the Silence-Lotto rider started giving interviews on his mobile phone. Former rider Kurt Betschart, who manages the ceremony, waited a while, but finally, he said, "I challenged him to get a move on." The Australian sprinter then called Betschart a "f**king idiot" and called the race a "f**king organisation," Blick reported. It added that last year, after his Tour de Suisse stage five win in Giubiasco, McEwen also applied that same title to the country, calling it "f**king Switzerland." The race organisers at first wanted to exclude McEwen from the race for his remarks, but gave him another chance. Race spokesman Kurt Henauer confirmed McEwen's comments, telling Cyclingnews that the organisers "would not impose sanctions – provisionally – because a fine of 200 Franc is a joke..." Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara of Team CSC told Blick that "McEwen is a very unpopular rider. I can't understand why the Tour de Suisse organisers didn't take any action." Expanding his comments, Cancellara told Cyclingnews, "It's all a question of respect for the race, for his colleagues, his sponsors and the organisation. If people don't know how to behave themselves, they're better off being sent home." Team Silence-Lotto did not respond to Cyclingnews' request for a comment on the situation. |
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McEwen mouths off
On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre wrote:
McEwen mouths off in Switzerland By Susan Westemeyer Would've been better just to give the link: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...n08/jun17news2 |
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, Andre wrote: McEwen mouths off in Switzerland By Susan Westemeyer Robbie McEwen is not making many friends in Switzerland. According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, the Tour de Suisse stage three winner's ceremony had to wait for him on Monday. Immediately after the stage, the Silence-Lotto rider started giving interviews on his mobile phone. Former rider Kurt Betschart, who manages the ceremony, waited a while, but finally, he said, "I challenged him to get a move on." The Australian sprinter then called Betschart a "f**king idiot" and called the race a "f**king organisation," Blick reported. It added that last year, after his Tour de Suisse stage five win in Giubiasco, McEwen also applied that same title to the country, calling it "f**king Switzerland." The race organisers at first wanted to exclude McEwen from the race for his remarks, but gave him another chance. Race spokesman Kurt Henauer confirmed McEwen's comments, telling Cyclingnews that the organisers "would not impose sanctions * provisionally * because a fine of 200 Franc is a joke..." Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara of Team CSC told Blick that "McEwen is a very unpopular rider. I can't understand why the Tour de Suisse organisers didn't take any action." Expanding his comments, Cancellara told Cyclingnews, "It's all a question of respect for the race, for his colleagues, his sponsors and the organisation. If people don't know how to behave themselves, they're better off being sent home." But it's okay to call Tour of California a tricycle race. -- Michael Press |
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McEwen mouths off
On Jun 17, 2:01*pm, Robert Chung wrote:
On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre wrote: McEwen mouths off in Switzerland By Susan Westemeyer Would've been better just to give the link:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news..php...n08/jun17news2 Why would you want to have an extra click? |
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On Jun 17, 7:28 pm, Andre wrote:
McEwen mouths off in Switzerland By Susan Westemeyer Robbie McEwen is not making many friends in Switzerland. According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, the Tour de Suisse stage three winner's ceremony had to wait for him on Monday. Immediately after the stage, the Silence-Lotto rider started giving interviews on his mobile phone. Former rider Kurt Betschart, who manages the ceremony, waited a while, but finally, he said, "I challenged him to get a move on." The Australian sprinter then called Betschart a "f**king idiot" and called the race a "f**king organisation," Blick reported. It added that last year, after his Tour de Suisse stage five win in Giubiasco, McEwen also applied that same title to the country, calling it "f**king Switzerland." The race organisers at first wanted to exclude McEwen from the race for his remarks, but gave him another chance. Race spokesman Kurt Henauer confirmed McEwen's comments, telling Cyclingnews that the organisers "would not impose sanctions – provisionally – because a fine of 200 Franc is a joke..." Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara of Team CSC told Blick that "McEwen is a very unpopular rider. I can't understand why the Tour de Suisse organisers didn't take any action." Expanding his comments, Cancellara told Cyclingnews, "It's all a question of respect for the race, for his colleagues, his sponsors and the organisation. If people don't know how to behave themselves, they're better off being sent home." Team Silence-Lotto did not respond to Cyclingnews' request for a comment on the situation. Ban him from the Tour de France. -ilan |
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, Andre wrote: On Jun 17, 2:01*pm, Robert Chung wrote: On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre wrote: McEwen mouths off in Switzerland By Susan Westemeyer Would've been better just to give the link:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...n08/jun17news2 Why would you want to have an extra click? Speaking for myself, Cyclingnews is very generous with its content, and it seems churlish to deny them the pageviews, which are pretty much how they make money. -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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McEwen mouths off
Andre wrote: McEwen mouths off in Switzerland By Susan Westemeyer Robbie McEwen is not making many friends in Switzerland. According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, the Tour de Suisse stage three winner's ceremony had to wait for him on Monday. Immediately after the stage, the Silence-Lotto rider started giving interviews on his mobile phone. Former rider Kurt Betschart, who manages the ceremony, waited a while, but finally, he said, "I challenged him to get a move on." He is an Australian, what would you expect?? Over there that is not only normal behaviour, but also normal conversation. It is a cultural thing ofr Australians to be tootally ignorant most of the time, dunno what the fuss is about myself. I just reckon, grow up and get over it. Australians are not worth gettin worked up over. Ro |
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On Jun 17, 1:06*pm, Andre wrote:
On Jun 17, 2:01*pm, Robert Chung wrote: On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre wrote: McEwen mouths off in Switzerland By Susan Westemeyer Would've been better just to give the link: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...n08/jun17news2 Why would you want to have an extra click? I don't mind the extra click. It's good therapy for recovering from finger cancer. Also, it's good form to reference the source of a quote. And bad form to requote an entire article without adding any useful commentary of your own. It is copyrighted, you know. And since their income is from ads and pageviews, posting the article rather than a link is taking money directly away from them. Ben |
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wrote: On Jun 17, 1:06*pm, Andre wrote: On Jun 17, 2:01*pm, Robert Chung wrote: On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre wrote: McEwen mouths off in Switzerland By Susan Westemeyer Would've been better just to give the link:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...n08/jun17news2 Why would you want to have an extra click? I don't mind the extra click. *It's good therapy for recovering from finger cancer. Also, it's good form to reference the source of a quote. *And bad form to requote an entire article without adding any useful commentary of your own. *It is copyrighted, you know. *And since their income is from ads and pageviews, posting the article rather than a link is taking money directly away from them. Ben Man! And I thought they had it rough in Iraq... |
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McEwen mouths off
On Jun 17, 9:04*pm, wrote:
Ban him from the Tour de France. -ilan- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - If they banned everyone who has an asshole moment it'd be an awfully small race. McWhiner has a little more than moments though. They could just ban everyone, and run a virtual Tour, of all the greats. No fuss, and disruption on the roads, no logistics hassles, no sweat. Perfect thing for the computer age couch potato. In that case I'm betting on Greg and his virtual dominance. Bill C |
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