McEwen mouths off

Andre

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.

Robert Chung

On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre <ANDREJANSSE...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> McEwen mouths off in Switzerland
> By Susan Westemeyer

Would've been better just to give the link:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php...un08/jun17news2

Michael Press

In article
<c969451a-233c-4170-b3a6-19715cffa439@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Andre <ANDREJANSSENS1@yahoo.com> 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

Andre

On Jun 17, 2:01*pm, Robert Chung <rech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre <ANDREJANSSE...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > McEwen mouths off in Switzerland
> > By Susan Westemeyer
>
> Would've been better just to give the link:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news..ph...un08/jun17news2

Why would you want to have an extra click?

ilanpsi@gmail.com

On Jun 17, 7:28 pm, Andre <ANDREJANSSE...@yahoo.com> 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

Ryan Cousineau

In article
<245c4bc1-6e55-4426-91e7-cb8768501ef4@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
Andre <ANDREJANSSENS1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Jun 17, 2:01*pm, Robert Chung <rech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre <ANDREJANSSE...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > McEwen mouths off in Switzerland
> > > By Susan Westemeyer
> >
> > Would've been better just to give the
> > link:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php...un08/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 rcousine@gmail.com http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

Ro

Andre <ANDREJANSSENS1@yahoo.com> 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

Colin Campbell

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.

Cycling.TV showed him being interviewed in French. He had a lot of
trouble finding the words he wanted to say, and at one point, switched
to English to say how much he enjoyed beng Switzerland, and how much he
liked the race. This story puts a new light on those remarks for me....

bjw@mambo.ucolick.org

On Jun 17, 1:06*pm, Andre <ANDREJANSSE...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2:01*pm, Robert Chung <rech...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre <ANDREJANSSE...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > McEwen mouths off in Switzerland
> > > By Susan Westemeyer
>
> > Would've been better just to give the link: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php...un08/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

Andre

On Jun 18, 4:04*am, "b...@mambo.ucolick.org" <b...@mambo.ucolick.org>
wrote:
> On Jun 17, 1:06*pm, Andre <ANDREJANSSE...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 17, 2:01*pm, Robert Chung <rech...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Jun 17, 10:28 am, Andre <ANDREJANSSE...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > > McEwen mouths off in Switzerland
> > > > By Susan Westemeyer
>
> > > Would've been better just to give the link:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php...un08/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...

Bill C

On Jun 17, 9:04*pm, ilan...@gmail.com 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

RicodJour

On Jun 18, 8:33 am, Bill C <tritonri...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> If they banned everyone who has an asshole moment it'd be an awfully
> small race. McWhiner has a little more than moments though.

Aren't all sprinters assholes? Instead of kicking them out, couldn't
the organizers just have every stage end on a mountain top?

R