benji a écrit :
Mais c’est quoi le rapport entre racerX et Gatedrop ?
Comprends rien.
J’avais la flemme de me lancer dans une longue explication sur cette ténébreuse affaire, lol, Aaron Hansel l’a fait à ma place…
« Being a moto journalist is a pretty cool job. You get to travel to cool places covering the coolest sport there is, all while hanging out at the races and helping tell the stories of the athletes who put a show on for us every weekend. Unfortunately, sometimes those stories take on a life of their own—quotes get used way out of context, and something that’s more fiction than fact can get presented as reality.
I’m talking about a story recently posted on Gatedrop.com, in which a headline quotes Ken Roczen as saying, « I want to kick [Jeffrey] Herlings’ ass! » The writer of the story credited Two Tribes, a regular feature I handle in Racer X Illustrated, with the info. Only problem is, Roczen didn’t say those exact words, and the article takes what he did say way out of context.
If you’re not familiar with Two Tribes, it’s a lighthearted interview section where we ask two people an identical list of questions and put the answers next to each other. In this case, it was MXGP World Champion Tim Gajser and Lucas Oil AMA Motocross #1 Roczen. One of the questions we always ask is, « Whose ass would you like to kick? » It’s an irreverent question, and I don’t think anyone has ever answered seriously—and that includes Roczen when he gave a tongue-in-cheek response of, « Herlings.” [Ed. note: When I asked a young Ricky Carmichael that question back in 1999, he looked me square in the eye and said with perfect comedic timing, “I would like to kick your ass.”—DC]
Yet somehow that simple answer morphed into « I want to kick Jeffrey Herlings’ ass! » The writer then took it a step further, suggesting Roczen has no respect for Herlings, and that his motivation for returning to the MXoN in 2017 (which he announced via a video to a German Supercross crowd) is solely out of a desire to beat Herlings. It’s an example of a writer creating a story and searching for facts to support it, instead of writing a story based on facts. The reasons Roczen didn’t race the MXoN the last two years are well documented—he underwent surgery to fix a back injury in 2015 and was switching teams in 2016. And whether or not Herlings is there in 2017 is not important to Roczen; representing Germany is what matters, which is what Roczen told us when we corresponded with him earlier in the week.
Whether it’s Roczen or a triple-digit privateer in the back of the pits you’ve never heard of, these kinds of stories don’t benefit anyone. They’re a disservice to the fans, who are getting false information. They make all reporters look bad, and they misrepresent riders. Lose, lose, lose. (And you’re better than this, Jonathan McCready.) »
, le il y a 3 années et 2 mois.
