Türkiye Gazetelerinden Haber Al
Related Articles
Maarten Ducrot says goodbye as cycling commentator at NOS tomorrow in the Amstel Gold Race. In this context, Daan de Ridder from NU.nl visited him and made a nice farewell interview with the voice that has divided the cycling-loving Netherlands into two camps in recent decades.
Column with exaggeration
Either you love his amazement at the most normal things in the world and the eternal ‘new cycling’ or you hate it. As you might have guessed from the previous sentence, I hate it.
Now hate is of course a big word, because I naturally wish Ducrot the very best on a personal level and, moreover, it is only cycling – and then not even cycling itself, but the commentary. I can’t deny that I also smiled at him sometimes. In the interview, he himself cites his quotes about Cancellara swallowing a moped and ‘going through the peloton like a hand blender’. Fine finds.
Still, I found Ducrot to be a particularly bad commentator overall. My main objection to Ducrot’s comments was his lack of expertise. I wanted to – in an exaggerated way, with a wink. as it goes in columns – and so I wrote a column last Tour with the headline ‘I kept track of all the nonsense that Maarten Ducrot spews’ for an afternoon.
Stiff dick
It was well read and Ducrot’s name is still high in the Google results. The interviewer confronted him about this and Ducrot responded. Didn’t he find that kind of criticism annoying?
“I don’t find that annoying at all. What kind of person are you if you want to profile yourself on the internet by telling what nonsense someone else is spouting? How small are you then? I just think that’s a bit rude. Or am I crazy?”
De Ridder then asks him if he would talk to me. Ducrot responds with a laugh: “Well, I’m not eager. I think it’s an honor that he used me to measure himself a stiff cock. Put that in there.”
Response from me
Because these are all not very flattering reactions, De Ridder gave me the opportunity to respond to Ducrot’s words. That is this comment, which is also included in the article:
“This is part of cycling, that you like each other. I like his response. I still stand by what I wrote in that column, but it should clearly be read with a wink. I have used the figure of speech of exaggeration.”
“The fact is that I am not a fan of Ducrot the cycling commentator, which is why I always watch Belgian TV. It is as I write at the end of my column: Maarten, fare you well, but we are not made for each other.”
Whose deed. Once again all the best Martin! Ennehh, I’ll keep watching De Belg, because your replacements don’t do much better as far as I’m concerned.. (In Roubaix they only saw that Van Aert was punctured when his wheel was actually changed).
