Dry and obsessed with world wars… music to my ears
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Love him. I really enjoy his banter and his genuine passion for the sport. He’s a color commentator, and he does that job exceptionally well.
As for personality, you’re never going to please everyone, but I think it’s hard to hide your true character when you’re speaking live for several hours at a time. A good example for me is someone like Lance Armstrong. Just by listening to him, you get a pretty clear sense of the kind of person he is
I know what you mean about Marty. I guess I forgive this a bit because I came to him through cross where the TV director always shows only the front of the race so his listing who’s where is actually helpful while you watch a group of 5 Belgians trying to close a 3min gap on MVDP for 45mins 
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Asking what is by all appearances a sincere question about a public figure in a small forum isn’t playing with someone’s reputation.
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I’ve ridden with Robbie at Tour of Margaret River in the peloton and chatted to him on the bike for an hour or so on a return leg post-stage. He was excellent in my experience. I love his commentary work too.
I’m happy if my sports stars are reasonably decent human beings with forgivable flaws. I don’t follow them for anything other than their riding. I find the views of celebrities generally meaningless and it somewhat bizarre that people think there’s value in them beyond what they’re actually famous for.
The commentators calling him a massive C could perhaps have said something of substance instead.
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Agree. I haven’t heard the actual podcast it was said in, but If no context was provided, it’s meaningless, and likely they just made themselves look rather c**tish.
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Haven’t met many pros, and the ones I did were very short interactions:
- Robbie McEwan - He was fine to stop for a photo, but he certainly knew he was celebrity. I wouldn’t describe him as humble but then again it’s not a trait that’s helpful for most sprinters.
- Caleb Ewan - he was fresh onto GreenEdge and happy to chat. Young and enthusiastic to meet fans.
- Cadel Evans - Shook hands on a Paris street but he was a bit awkward, almost aloof. Definitely seemed to not enjoy the attention (which I sympathized with).
- Simon Clarke - Best of the bunch. Friendly, happy and seemed very down to earth. He was as excited to talk about 2019 Amstel Gold as I was.
Sometimes sporting heros are just people good at sports (not necessarily anything more).
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I think this thread is a bad look for Escape Collective.
I think this thread is a bad look for Escape Collective.
Really? I’d say it’s been a fairly restrained and balanced discussion, which is exactly what makes EC great.
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This would be fun but commentary is super hard and I think we’d probably suck at it!
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As a fellow Aspy, I’d say expecting anything but awkwardness from Cadel is extremely unrealistic.
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True, but as some prove, you can go a long way if you just open your mind and let the words flow out
No knowledge of McEwen either way but I’d assumed in the context of the podcast, the c-bomb was awarded to him for some specific way he’d treated Harry/Stu when they all worked at GCN rather than anything more general. Purely speculation on my part of course, just my reading of what was said.
It has been awhile, but Abbey did some races previously and she was excellent.
would absolutely sign up for more of that.
Agree. I haven’t heard the actual podcast it was said in, but If no context was provided, it’s meaningless, and likely they just made themselves look rather c**tish.
Having now listened to the DNF pod in question, I am surprised to find I was right. In having a go at RM for supposedly being not a very nice man, the host who said it comes across as not a very nice man for just slagging someone off publicly for no apparent reason and without context (sorry, don’t know who it was, partly cause there seems to be absolutely no easy to find info anywhere on who the hosts are).
It sounded school yard like. I won’t be listening again.