Quote Originally Posted by ridebikeme View Post
I suppose we could argue this for quite some time. HOwever, I do have one question. What good does it do to complain about something that happened last year? IN reality, it seems that LA should be focused on this year and the changes that he can make. Once again, all he's asking for is the spotlight to once again shine on him.

Remember some of the great athletes from the past? They let their performance do their talking... what a nice thought!
Except the media love a feud. You could argue that he should decline to answer the question, but that won't stop them from asking it. I guarantee we'll be hearing about this in July, whether the main players have something new to say about it or not. They're trying to attract readers/viewers, and if this topic didn't do the job they'd stop talking about it.

BTW that particular article looks like it was a translation from one language to another and back again. Not the best source for understanding what someone is really saying. And cyclingnews excerpted it, so they chose the part that they wanted to highlight.

One thing that I found interesting this past year was the way Lance and Levi cut out the press completely and went straight to the fans during the Giro. They made their own videos and posted them on twitter and livestrong.com, and they did it because they got tired of the stupid questions the journalists were asking.

As for focusing on 2010, he's already posted his first video for Team Radio Shack. It was short, basically a happy-new-year-and-thanks-for-last-year's-support message, but now that the new year has started he's clearly moving forward with the new team. And he's training in Hawaii during the holidays, and was recently quoted as saying that he expects to be better this year than last but knows that Contador and Shleck will be hard to beat. Not exactly living in the past.

(Lest you think I'm a stalker, I can also tell you where Taylor Phinney and Ted King are training right now, that George Hincapie has new insoles, Christian Vande Velde's 2-year-old recently learned to say "oh ****," and that Brad Wiggins is proud of himself for not drinking on New Year's Eve. And that Jonathan Vaughters has a wild pair of plaid pants and Phil Liggett's plane had a rough landing when he flew to Australia the other day. It's all out there on twitter.)