This month's Cycle Sport has an article by Graham Watson decrying the third Freire World Championship as being undeserving because he doesn't ride from April to October like Zabel.
Yes, Zabel is an awesome rider and deserves accolades, but he came up short in Verona.
Is this really just a veiled criticism of Armstrong and all other riders who choose to focus on one or a few events as well? Perhaps it is but Mr. Watson has made so much money off Armstrong images that he feels the need to protect that lucrative relationship by not mentioning Lance's racing schedule in his criticism of today's training and racing environment. Which unfairly makes Freire the focus of his criticism.
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This month's Cycle Sport has an article by Graham Watson decrying the third Freire World Championship as being undeserving because he doesn't ride from April to October like Zabel.
Yes, Zabel is an awesome rider and deserves accolades, but he came up short in Verona.
Is this really just a veiled criticism of Armstrong and all other riders who choose to focus on one or a few events as well? Perhaps it is but Mr. Watson has made so much money off Armstrong images that he feels the need to protect that lucrative relationship by not mentioning Lance's racing schedule in his criticism of today's training and racing environment. Which unfairly makes Freire the focus of his criticism.
--keven.
I think Mr Watson only has a short term memory. Didn't Freire already won a stage in the Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-Sanremo in March? And didn't he end his season with a stage victory in the Vuelta in September plus a 3rd worldchampionship in Octobre?
