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Another Cav interview masterpiece

by Gerard Vroomen

July 06, 2011 - Filed under: Company

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Watching Sporza last night just to catch the next Cav interview. @Wielerman did not disappoint. I missed some parts due to my very slow internet connection, but it went something like this:

Wielerman: Quite a controversy about the intermediate sprint yesterday

Cav: [Silence]…

Wielerman: Eh, Thor Hushovd said that if anything was wrong he will accept the penalty but it should not be you.

Cav: [Silence] …

Wielerman: No comment?

Cav: Well, you’re not asking a question, are you? You’re making a statement, so there is nothing for me to answer.

Wielerman: [Silence] … OK, so if I ask you a question, would you answer?

That was the comedy part of the exchange. Just on the off-chance you’re also interested in the actual question that got an actual answer, it finally went something like this:

Wielerman: You and Thor were disqualified, describe what happened?

Cav: I don’t know what happened, I really don’t. I would like the commissaires to make a video for me to show what I did wrong and what I should have done instead. I just don’t know, what should I do to keep my line and avoid crashing? I honestly don’t know, I don’t know what I did wrong and I don’t know what I should do differently. I really don’t. Can they please explain it?

In the studio they speculated that it may have been a case of the commissaires “warning” everybody that they would be strict this year. Maybe that was necessary given some of the antics last year, but you’d better pick a REAL issue to use as a warning, not a fake one like this sprint. Because now everybody is talking about how incomprehensible the call was, not about how to sprint in relative safety (if there is such a thing).

5 responses for this Entry

DC says:

July 07, 2011

The commissaires seem to have designed a tricky course this year with good sprints but little lumps just before them, to break up the trains, its great for us the viewer/fan and its meaning whoever wins Green will have to be more than just a speed merchant, probs a Gilbert/Rojas.

That was sprinting yday, there is constant leaning going on, agreed the Renshaw thing last year was extreme. But its a storm in a tea cup as Cav would say......not sure he would actually. Both Thor and Cav should be grumpy as its a bemusing decision.

Great dig on the front by Dave Millar today and another strong showing from Thor doing yellow and World Champs Jerseys proud.

Cav is a grumpy scouser.......we know he is, everyone in cycling knows he is even if he is unwittingly a comic.

Julio says:

July 07, 2011

What's up with all the man love for the Brit hot head? Let's hear some for Romain Feillu.

DJ says:

July 06, 2011

Cav was on great form (both interviewing and sprinting) once more today!

SLC says:

July 06, 2011

I think Boonen suffered enough as the gods of sprinting struck him down shortly after.

KD says:

July 06, 2011

Yet today in the same intermediate sprint no one punished Boonen for blatant rule breaking.