Kimmage On Air - Kicks Contador, Blasts Schleck and Calls-out Roche

What would you prefer? Someone meek and subservient who tells us all is well and there’s nothing to worry about, and look, there’s a shiny bicyle, isn’t it pretty?

the US military multi-national industrial complex, even just the obvious stuff, like the graft contracts and the eighth-ass disingenuous ‘nation building,’ all as collateral consequence of the Energy Templar Quest…

Bikes!

Not sure the need to insult Kimmage, who is one of us. Kinda the same as insulting Greg Lemond, which is no longer so easy or so in fashion.

If new Vino pledge recruit Roman Kreuziger wins the TDF this year, (and he might) what will be the main contributing factor to his talent jump?

Answer: He matured!

is like calling out a younger Medici to comment upon the corruption of Renaissance papal elections.

ha, impressive analogy

Less picking a rider at random, more picking a rider the listeners might have heard of?

Roche has a job already, and it’s riding his bike, which he has a lot of talent for. It takes a lot of time and energy to do the kind of advocacy work effectively that Kimmage is calling out on our boy to do. Sure it’s a worthy cause, but nobody needs to call him out to do more.

Bernard Kohl says everyone knows.

stopped me in my tracks, to the point where I didn’t read the rest of your comment.

If it is self-referential, my sympathies (genuinely),
If was aimed at someone in particular, then shame on you.
It was aimed at all of of the registered users and readers of the site – then cheers for that…

 . . . . and so I do not consider this as investigative journalism.

As for his articles, they seem to be little more then color commentary with essentially now real investigative journalism performed.

To be clear, I don’t think he is inconvenient, I think he’s lazy and does little more then articulating in a slightly more eloquent manner then what you can read here at the PdC.

Shit, Chris and Gavia have done more aggressive journalism then Kimmage recently.

All this guy does is ‘armchair quarter’ back and tell other people to do things while he really contributes very little.
So yeah, I’d say he’s ‘muck raker’.

I don’t think I’ve seen/heard him get a head of steam about anything beyond cycling. Kimmage is more than capable of being composed, analytical and persuasive.

But with doping in cycling it is his love of the sport, his intimate knowledge of the history of doping – both from personal experience as a rider and outcast (because he spat in the soup) – means he is outraged that very little has changed since 1990.

Everything he says in that interview is IMO appropriate, regardless of his tone of voice (and he knows that talking quietly and diplomatically changes nothing). Hence the challenge to Nico Roche – to use his public platform, writing for an Irish newspaper, to distance himself from the dopers. I don’t think Stephen Roche’s dirty past is a priority right now. He’d certainly want the truth to be told. However, much more pressing is that he wants it to stop among today’s riders. You can’t turn back the clock, but today’s sponsors and today’s fans need today’s riders to be clean – for their own sakes but also for the future of the sport as a whole.

And he’s right about riders needing to speak out. My first thought about Schleck and Riis still defending Contador even now indicates they are unwilling to condemn the man who broke the rules of the sport and beat them to win the Tour. The only reason I can see why this is so is because they are guilty too.

The clean riders (and there must be quite a few now, I hope) need to stop and think how not speaking out is damaging the sport. Cavendish, McEwen and the guys who didn’t want Ricco back in the peloton, where are they now? What of all the riders with the blue wristband? Do they want all of cycling to be clean? Perhaps it will mean they don’t get a job with Riis or Bruyneel but something has to change and it’s the riders who dope so it’s the riders that need to do something. Otherwise we out here on the edge of the sport are pissing in the wind.

@Ryan_Liles I think you do Kimmage a disservice to call him lazy or an armchair quarterback. I wonder what you would do if you were in his position. To say “Chris and Gavia have done more aggressive journalism then Kimmage recently” is in my opinion a childish remark, regardless of how much time and effort those two people put into running this website.

it is in the context of cycling not really having a profile here, so hasn’t been covered much – but I appreciate that in other countries “sports journo” would include cycling! Sorry!)

 . . . I happen to not think giving a notorious doper money for an interview would be considered investigative journalism.
In fact nothing earth shattering came from that either.

And following a team around through a three week PR event and then reporting on it is again total fluff.

What I do see is a highly profitable business from a former doper who was able to write a book and then parlay into a lucrative career as a Journo and occasionally a ‘muck raker’.