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Peter Sagan post-Nieuwsblad interview is like something out of a stoner movie
Brad Pitt in True Romance and Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski, are two Hollywood stars who have convincingly played stoners on screen. And going by this bizarre interview following his second-place finish at yesterday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Peter Sagan would breeze an audition for a similar role should he switch to acting once he retires from racing.
The race was won by BMC Racing’s Greg van Avermaet, with Cannondale-Drapac’s Sep Vanmarcke third, but it was the interview in the video above with Bora-Hansgrohe’s newly-bearded world champion that caught the attention of social media users.
It’s unsurprising that following a hard-fought and physically and mentally draining race that has ended in narrow defeat, Sagan might have seemed a bit ‘out there’ in the interview, to the evident bemusement of the Sporza reporter asking the questions.
Still, he got off lightly compared to former BBC sports editor David Bond who was told “don’t ask me stupid questions” and “do you know cycling?” by a disappointed Mark Cavendish after the road race at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Back to Sagan's interview yesterday, and it was the similarity to another classic film role - Tom Hanks as the title character in Forrest Gump - that popped into the mind of journalist Raymond Kerckhoffs of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
Run Peter! Run! @petosagan #sagan #OHN #cycling pic.twitter.com/e3Lek3jTF5
— Raymond Kerckhoffs (@raykerckhoffs) February 26, 2017
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Inhumane system that now will be getting even worse.
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Sagan. What can I say.... he's great!
Cyclists and their drugs, ey.
Watch the video that plays after too.
You're putting words into my mouth up there! Or near as damn it given they're typed!
Sad to see yet another doping controversy in cycling: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/endurance-athletes-...
Omloop was the classic example in Pro Racing where the smartest beats the strongest...
He really is the best! Funny (look at his smile under the beard) and entertaining on and off the bike, AND the rainbowstripes. Loved how the first thing he ate after the finish line was a handful og Haribo gummybears!
I too was also eating Haribos through the race whilst lying on the sofa.
It was utterly exhausting.
Legend!
Definitely more entertaining than those who are "media trained".
I like him, and cavendish too. They generally say whatever they think, kind of refreshing. Some of these interviewers could be more imaginative though.
That's just Sagan: takes time with his English, but even then one of the more open and entertaining cyclists in interviews, albeit ready to answer a yes/no question suitably if he thinks the journalist is overreaching.
Just watched live the end of Kuurne which he won and noticed that one of his support team couldn't wait to pour something into Peter's hand for him to eat as soon as he finished. He shovelled more down later. Yes the bag might be recognisable but the contents might not have been the original contents of the bag. Only a type 1 diabetic would need a sugar rush so urgently. Perhaps cycling officials should keep the team away until samples have been taken.
Interesting also that comments are disabled for yesterday's video. Is the sport of cycling straight? Beginning to wonder...
You're an idiot.
You're an idiot.
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Of course he is, only and an idiot or naieve fool would be 'beginning to wonder' if Road Cycling was actually a straight sport.
You've obviously never had the knock/bonked...
aww, he was a bit embarrassed to come second!
Give the man a break.
He didn't seem stoned to me. More like completely and utterly done with everyone's shit in general, and this interviewer's in particular. I know how he feels. Still, it is a common mistake to perceive sportspeople as being wiser than the average twenty-something, because they are at the top of their highly specialised field, despite most having spent almost their entire lives exercising their muscles rather than their minds. Sagan seems smarter than most, but that doesn't mean he's immune to having the occasional strop, or showing a typical millennial's interest in daft hair styles.
someone with a 'stomach complaint' would already know that...
team making excuses perhaps
Yeah like yours probably.
He was knackered and speaking a foreign language, I think he did pretty damned well.
Is there a special course, for sports journalists, entitled "How to ask professional cyclists bloody stupid questions after a big race."?
That is classic!
"Stomach problems?"
'Nah, I don't think so......pizza, yeah get me a slice and some nachos...and a chilli dog....dude!!"
Videos of people out of it. My kind of thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w7Es6NcYpc