procycling

Well, that's also/mainly a question of what the team and his advisors allow. One can always refuse organised interviews, and cut short impromptu reactions too.

Apparently, today and tomorrow, he will be guest on national TV, guest/interviewed on the main sport newspaper/TV, guest on sport TV/Youtube show, guest on a generic live radio broadcasts. So, those are two mainstream broadcasts, and two a bit more specialised ones.

I do not understand how his team and advisors agreed to all this. OK, his season is over, but I still think this is too much.

I mean, in France, there is only a heavy coverage for the Tour de France and for Paris-Roubaix, the rest of cycling is normally ignored by mainstream medias and even on sports medias it rarely reaches the front page. It is not Belgium! Not at all. The natural interest is not the same as in Belgium, so the natural pressure isn't either. There is no tabloid-like press coverage about cycling like there can be about football.

So, this rush to accept many mainstream interviews at the same moment looks strange, like they all (both medias and team/advisors) wanted to create a forced hype instead of downplaying it.

I am of the mind that the more you talk, the more chances you have to say shit 😀, while remaining silent only has benefits, it makes you look much more cleaver. Works in politics too 🤣