Interview with George Hincapie about High Road

earth_dweller

George Hincapie is dumb. period. yes I have met him multiple times. It has nothing to do with blurting out things in a derogatory manner during interview, but in actually being able to answer questions intelligently while providing some information.

This comment is not a reflection of the nice work by CH by any means.

Crankyfeet

Now you have my curious attention.

Did you meet him multiple times when you were a podium girl, Edie? Are you just still bitchin' because he ignored you and married Melanie instead?

And point taken on the dumb thesis. That disease can't be cured unfortunately. But he has got to be smart enough to take directions from the Hog. On second thoughts, that doesn't require much smarts. In fact being smart would be a disadvantage perhaps.

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cyclingheroes

No worries.

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limerickman

I agree.

No disrespect intended .........I don't expect to read anything particularly insightful from any rider.

I'll try to put this as diplomatically as possible - none of these guys are particularly well educated/read.
I'm not saying that they're not intelligent.

Which begs the question - which rider gives the most insightful/intelligent interviews?
One recent interview I read with Erik Dekker was superb - it was full of good observations about training, his rivals and life after cycling.

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.."But finally the last thing I’ll say to the people who don’t believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics. I'm sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. [I]I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. You should believe in these athletes, and you should believe in these people. I'll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets" - this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it - Armstrong 2005 TDF
morelike hypocrisy.

Felt_Rider

.........and I think that is generally true for most athletes in all the major mainstream sports. Some are even smooth enough (personable) to give a good interview, but still are not the brightest. You would think that most of them would make good coaches, but I have met many (not in cycling) that are at the top of their game and yet know very little about how to train themselves, much less, someone else. They have/had the best genetics for that given event and by that and some hard effort excelled when others in the trenches try much harder. Even after many years of training they still depend on coaches/trainers/doctors to spell it out what they need to do and when they need to do it. There are many on this website that are much better educated in physiology and training than professionals. I know education is a broad spectrum, but I am picking on the professionals in an area where they make a living and yet know very little about what makes them function and excel at what they do.

cyclingheroes

There are some exceptions. Fignon in the past and nowadays Jaksche and Nuyens.

I just did an interview with Nuyens (no its not published yet), he has a university degree in communication science (is it called like that in English?, in Dutch its commincatiewetenschappen in German Kommunikationswissenschaften). Nick is a pretty smart guy.

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snood

Pinotti is engineer.

cyclingheroes

and writes great books...

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nns1400

We try to make things shorter and snappier in English...just Communications is fine. Or even just PR...which stands for public relations.

The Dutch and German words just sound like supercalifragilisticexpialadocious to me....(from Mary Poppins to the uninitiated)

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This stuff is just crap...Hitchy

JohnO

I'm impressed that you could spell it...

cyclingheroes

I know that's why I asked: is it called like that in English?

Thanks!

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Crankyfeet

If you're going to make a point of criticizing other languages...at least get the spelling of ours right...

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious


Geez...

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nns1400

you know, I had a moment's hesitation over the i or the a...but I knew you would be on hand to correct me .

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This stuff is just crap...Hitchy

thoughtforfood

I have met him more than once too, and he is a nice guy.

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