It’s all trolling to boost page views. Ignorant mummy blogger is ignorant…
Ive got to be honest and say I think the word hero is thrown around pretty loosely in the media or society in general. Then again, if Cadels performance was what inspired your kid to get away from their PS3 and get out and participate in a sport enhancing their health then you might consider him a hero indeed. There would be few who wouldn’t describe his performance as heroic if you stayed up watching him power up those mountains with gritted teeth in the last week.
Let’s just hope that some of these new converts to being fans of cycling will possibly have a new attitude on the roads to those cyclists that arent trying to win anything but just trying to ride to work.
I wouldn’t say hero, but I certainly think he’s a good role model.
She also said that Jessica Watson was a hero some time back…
If you are going to ask ‘what has Cadel done’? You should find out. There are good reasons to admire Cadel as a sportsperson, and now a public figure.
It is still a legitimate question to ask in the first place.
A week ago the TDF coverage was hidden deep up the back of the sports section after pages of footy ect, and then overnight it is on the front page, and we have a new ‘national hero’. I would be a sceptic as well if he wasn’t a cyclist.
And the wheels of the attention economy roll on. It doesn’t matter if it is true or false, if it grabs the public’s attention and generates page hits then it is “good journalism”. What a load of bullshit I say. This stupid cow called Jessica Watson a hero, and I’d like her to explain how Jessica’s actions are different to Cadel?
For the record I am that person that Mia is talking about, the non-sportsperson who did well in the science and math competitions in school and didn’t even rate a mention above the junior cricket team who made it to regional finals. I admit that it pissed me off how much praise and attention was heaped on those that could run fast, versus those who could differentiate a complex function. The simple fact of the matter is though that I have never felt as emotionally invested in watching someone participate in a sports event as when I watched Cadel over the last 3 weeks. I did feel different on Sunday, with a bit more spring in my step, and I have been inspired to do my job better after watching what he has achieved. I can’t say the last time someone in my own field inspired me to the same degree.
Good point about your own field. I’m inspired too, but one of my fields is academic sport history, which is why I’m split between being a fan and being a critic.
also, anyone see her piece about “hipsters” a few weeks back?
vapid, nonsense along of the lines of “and i’m not one cos i don’t ride a fixed wheel bike” - then goes onto say she actually had to look up what a fixie was…
dozy fashion bint.
i think cadel would embarrassed by all of this… every interview i have heard him do he has come across as very humbled by the whole experience and i doubt he’d enjoy the adulation thats being forced upon him here. if i was him i’d be delaying his return to australia for a while.
the today show has never really done anything with much journalistic credibility, and they proved that by interviewing someone with the the knowledge of but one fact, “all i know is that he doesn’t live in australia”.
its controversy for the sake of it, and it was laughable.
fk off channell nine and fk off mia freedman.
just hope sbs has locked in the broadcast rights, can only imagine the TDF going onto a commercial network.
You rule.
Mia, on the other hand… I just read her “hipster” article. Oh my.
At first i thought it said i don’t have time to be ironing.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Up till this point I had no idea that was Tina Arena singing the anthem!
How terribly embarrassing for us all.
Not meaning to sound trite, I’ll simply quote Roland Barthes from ‘The Tour de France as Epic’
“There is an onomastics of the Tour de France which in itself tells us that these races are a great epic. The racers’ names seem for the most part to come from a very old ethnic period, from an age when the ‘race,’ indeed, was audible in a little group of exemplary phonemes (Brankart le France, Bobet le Francien, Robic le Celte, Ruiz l’Ibere, Darrrigade le Gascon). Then, too, these names keep recurring; they form certain fixed points in the great risk of the ordeal, whose task is to fasten an episodic, tumultuous duration to the stable essence of the great characters, as if man were, above all, a name which enables him to master events.”
WHy? She did a bloody good job of it.
F a c e p a l m
Hey guys, this whole thread is full of sexist bullshit but I can’t be effed pulling it apart for you 
No way the French fucking love her.