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SKY: doing people’s heads in since 2009

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on April 29, 2014May 1, 2014

What is it about Team Sky that rankles so? Why do the come across as…

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14 responses to “SKY: doing people’s heads in since 2009”

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    April 29, 2014

    […] SKY: doing people's heads in since 2009 | crankpunk […]

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  2. Tim Avatar
    Tim
    April 29, 2014

    The main reason I dislike them is because they are Ruperts minions.

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  3. Nirolex Avatar
    Nirolex
    April 29, 2014

    Weird, really, all of this. The same people who buy into the Rapha image are telling us all how much they dislike Sky. Almost as if they misunderstood the message put forward in the branding and advertising set out by Rapha, and when confronted with the reality of this, they decide it is all a bit too much for them… very much like the fat middle aged men who spend thousands on a shit hot road bike, but when they find out it is actually HARD to do a climb on it, they decide they don’t like it…

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    1. Noel Avatar
      Noel
      April 29, 2014

      I guess a lot of it comes their success – from being the new guy who waltzed into town and almost immediately hooked up with the best looking girl.
      it does surprise me how a bike team backed by a media giant has succeeded at everything except PR though. To be the unpopular team in a sport with teams run by dodgy characters with plainly dodgy pasts such as Och, Vino, Lefevre, White etc etc etc takes some doing.
      Actually I like Wiggins. He says what he thinks, he can be funny and he’s not boring like so many ‘on message’ sports stars today.

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        crankpunk
        April 29, 2014

        thanks for the comment Noel, much appreciated. yes i liked him too for a while, but pithy and witty seems to have gone the way churlish and slightly bitter, i guess when things are going well it’s easier? ‘a very British champion’ seems apt! (and I’m english, btw…)

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    Andrew
    May 1, 2014

    crank…as always thought provoking stuff. particularly enjoyed reading this just after Rapha sent out an email advertising their new Pantani Foundation Jersey, framed of course with their marketing proviso,

    ‘In making the Pantani Jersey, we are not ignoring his trials and tribulations, nor diminishing his culpability for his actions. Instead, we are choosing to recognise that Pantani was simply human in a sport which, for a vulnerable personality in his era, tested human virtues and vices to their limits.’

    and as you say… this in the same week as the Michael Barry tramadol admission. who the hell runs the PR machine at the Rapha/Sky mega deathstar bus? are they naive, stupid or insanely arrogant and amoral?

    LA was wrong, but so where others…whether legally or illegally doping. Its cheating all the same and if we are going to glorify ‘Il Pirata’ in the name of supposedly good taste (Rapha) then how the hell will we ever make progress with riding clean?

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      crankpunk
      May 1, 2014

      thanks Andrew, yes saw that about eh Pantani jersey – mad at best! agree with all your points too!

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  5. David Avatar
    David
    May 4, 2014

    I have to agree with Tim; they’re racing with Murdoch’s millions. I met Wiggins at Herne Hill in his pre-road days and he was sound as a pound, which he just isn’t these days.
    Pantani is a very specific character. He is still seen by many as a hero-figure despite his doping/cheating (delete as appropriate!), unlike most whose reputation suffers with such revelations. Rightly or wrongly I’m a huge fan, despite my anti-doping stance. I’m much more concerned that Contador (amongst numerous others) is still racing despite having been caught and banned previously for doping offences. He even had his TdF victory stripped from him and yet will be challenging for victory this year!

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      May 5, 2014

      have to say i have very little time for Pantani either. i don’t consider him to have won anything. Matt Rendell sees little to commemorate either: http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/02/analysis/pantani-biographer-sees-little-to-celebrate-on-anniversary-of-italians-death_317220
      here’s my take on the man and the myth from last year: http://crankpunk.com/2013/12/05/pantani-did-not-die-alone/

      thanks as ever for the comments guys!

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    llyjb7
    May 8, 2014

    For me I dislike Sky because I feel they disrespect the sport quite a lot – the sponsors want wins in the Tour de France and that is all the team seem to care about. They couldn’t care less about Liege-Bastogne-Liege, just see the result! There tactics may have been almost revolutionary but they are also very boring and one dimensional – when they get worked out by another team they don’t change them either. Also, they are so defensive – they never go for a daring stage win, not even if they have no real GC ambitions.

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      May 9, 2014

      yup, agreed!

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