by huw williams » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:00 am
[quote="adrian"] Personality-wise, I think sports people have always on the whole been quite boring - what's changed is that there's a microphone under their chin 24 hours a day now. In other words, they're as boring as ever they were - we just get to hear from them the whole time now.
Good point - and having interviewed hudreds of them I can confirm that pro cyclists are amongst the worst.
Given the amount of dedication they have to appy to their sport its no wonder that they have so little else to talk about - most pros have been riding at a high level since juniors so they have little life experience ouitside of the sport to draw on for interesting conversation.
Rasmussen was a good example - he used all his free time between racing/training to 'further his education' by learning languages - last time I spoke to him he was fluent in seven and a fair way along the path of learning an eighth which was Mandarin Chinese. Didn't have much of interest to say in any of them mind you