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Mark Cavendish wins - pic courtesy Photosport InternationalRacist? Moi? Cavendish denies French-baiting
Mark Cavendish has denied racially insulting French riders at the Tour de France, claiming that some of his best friends are French.
Cavendish, who grabbed a fourth stage victory this week, was the focus of attention in L’Equipe newspaper, which published the allegations by anonymous French riders.
"Cavendish is racist, he's anti-French," said one rider. "He should be careful. We're not going to put up with his attitude much longer."
Today, Cavendish hit back. His latest Tweet said: “I have no problem with French people. Some of my best friends are French.”
Earlier, the Isle of Man rider admitted that he could be ‘arsey’ in the heat of the moment, but the nationality of the rider on the receiving end was irrelevant.
He said: "I didn't say this. I had to laugh at that article. It would have been nice to have the name of the rider who supposedly said this so that I can go and sort it out.
"I get a little hot-headed sometimes, but it's irrelevant the nationality of the rider when you get arsey at someone. When you're a rider with a public profile, you can't be friends with everybody. It's going to be like that.
"I take it as a compliment that they're going to try and start shit about something that's not about bike riding, because they've got nothing to criticise my riding about."
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- hawkinspeter 0 sec ago
Your link didn't work for me, so here's one that does https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0w2xzzd4o
- chrisonabike 3 min ago
Neighbourhood: you can't change anything because we have a disabled resident! Also driving children to schools! People power!...
- mctrials23 25 min 34 sec ago
The drivers are also licensed so they obviously behave themselves as well.
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But... the last is only not the case with drivers on normal roads because driving on the cycle path / footway / rolling a vehicle up there is seen...
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Thanks. I guess the question is "need". If the road is busy, it sounds like it is a desired route between places? In which case (given this an...
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...and a square of faux sheepskin for the back of your saddle.
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At the risk of sounding pedantic, wasn't it Springfield's ain Rabbie Burns, Grounds Keeper Willie
I think Homer (Simpson that is, not the ancient Greek poet) had it right..."cheese eating surrender monkeys"
I'm not racist, but those shoulder- shrugging, garlic- reeking, snail- chompers are just annoyed that plucky Dumoulin didn't win on Bastille Day.
For 'anonymous French rider,' read ****- stirring journalist wanting a story, though.
Having said that, Cav comes across badly in interviews- I've met him in the flesh and he's a true gent but this doesn't seem to translate to the screen. Quite surprising to hear him use a version of the 'some of my best friends are black' argument, apparently without irony.
Wonder what Erik Zabel thinks of Cav's WWII paint job, too!
The dictionary definition does confirm that the French are indeed a race, albeit a bitter one...
1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
Since when has French been a 'race'?
"We're not going to put up with his attitude much longer" - what you going to do? beat him to the line?
save your talking for the tarmac, 'anonymous french rider'
honestly, this is such a non story!