no - he only wins stages/races.
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of course they all love it really... got his pic on here didnt it? no such thing as bad publicity etc...
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Ok I know this is Roadie content but - is Cav a Hero or a Cock?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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I don't much like the attitude. It's a sad business when coverage of a British rider winning things is dominated by the fact that he's decided to be a tool.
Also, the total lack of understanding shown in his book about why skipping out of competition tests matters is infuriating. Everybody who skips a control "just forgot", no-one's going to say "well if I get tested like that it'll pick up that I'm doing a quick course of 'roids". So anyone who wants to be presumed to be clean can't afford to be flippant about the issue.
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So anyone who wants to be presumed to be clean can't afford to be flippant about the issue.
Call me cycnical but surely they all want to be 'presumed to be clean', it's just that some are lucky, some are stupid and some are waaay ahead of the game on that front.Posted 2 years ago # -
True...
For clarity, I'm absolutely not suggesting that Cavendish is a doper.
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He's a Cock and a one trick pony.
What's that supposed to mean?
You want him to win mountain stages too? or maybe time trials?
What a clown!Cav is very good at what he does, the best in the world in fact. so he's arrogant and very confident in his own ability, good I say, you need to be at the top level of sport, he just doesn't hide it as well as others do.
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yes he's good
yes we like him (mostly)
yes, what he did was daft
why are so many British sportsmen a bit thick?
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I think he's alright. If journos had slagged him off (they can be really bad) then he's perfectly right to show his displeasure when the spotlight's on him. Absolutely fair enough.
I've learned in life that everyone presents a certain front to the world, and it's up to you to learn how to read that and understand what's behind it. After having seen some interviews with him I can completely empathise.
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TBH - if the press are winding him up, he'd be well advised to start sucking up to them a bit more
Normally I'd say stand up to them but I really don't believe he has the maturity or constitution yet to beat them at that game
He's just not up to it, the more he baits them, the more they'll come after him - they'll get to him in the end & leave him a jibbering wreck if he's not carefulPosted 2 years ago # -
why are so many British sportsmen a bit thick?
Spend too much time practicing their sport, and not enough time in school, maybe? I dunno.
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Ultra talented, but will never be a real hero, no matter how great he keeps telling us he is.
His ability inspires admiration, but his off the bike whinging does not.Bit like Carl Fogarty really.
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he is a bit of both but he is without doubt the best at what he does. Sprint the last bit of the stage. He may lack versatility but boy can he sprint. I dont really care what he did or if people got offended by it. Better him that the robots who just serve us up banal platitudes that exist in this and other sports .
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I like him,he shakes the sport up a bit......
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Maybe Mr Cavendish should just let his legs do the talking, but of these three Mr C is the youngster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ga4Bq4j8g
As Lance Armstrong says "don't let the people down".
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"Arsehole" apparently..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/may/04/mark-cavendish-cycling-tour-romandie
The pretty girl was sitting in an alcove under the stairs in a Soho bar, sobbing quietly into a mobile phone. In a nearby room her very composed boyfriend was taking his seat behind a table and starting a schedule of media interviews that would last all day.
On the table sat hardback copies of his autobiography, fresh from the printer, its simple dedication – "To Lissie" – explained and elaborated on the very last page: "Last and most, not least, of all, I thank and dedicate this book to my fiancée Melissa. Lissie, you were there when I was a sixteen-year-old scally with no money and sometimes even less charm, and you're still there for me now that I'm a lot older but unfortunately, on occasions, no less of an arsehole ... "
Several people noticed the girl's distress. A few knew who she was. No one wrote about it. A few weeks later Mark Cavendish made his first public appearance with a new girlfriend, a former Miss Italy, and now, a year on from that morning in Bar Italia, it will be interesting to discover, on its republication in June, whether the autobiography in question is a rare instance of a book changing its dedication in the process of going from hardback to paperback.
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