How to do a press conference...

[David Martin]

This is an absolute masterclass..
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/OxWPdnjk3I8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/OxWPdnjk3I8&rel=1</a>

Can you imagine a Wiggo/Cav press conference after the tour?

[Julian]

[Gaston Lagaffe]

Like

Tx

[mattc]

Who was sitting to his left? (The guy who won the Tour de Suisse!)

[Cudzoziemiec]

He has a good French accent (as far as I'm able to judge). Tres drole. 

[JT]

Very entertaining.

I always think it's nice when you see foreigners speaking English well - particularly sportsmen as they're not all known for their intellect. Even footballers can do it.

So it's nice to hear Brad speaking French so fluently and able to joke with the journalists. I've heard him do a press conference in French before but it was at the launch of something rather than post-race so it was a little more formal and the questions a little more predictable.

I've also seen Cav giving live TV interviews in Italian too.

[clarion]

Journalists don't need to ask any questions.  They've all tapped his phone.

[mattc]

I've also seen Cav giving live TV interviews in Italian too.

There's something inherently funny about the juxtaposition of certain accents (I was at a school where a lot of odd saarf Larndon french got spoke) - I can imagine Cav speaking Italian being one of them.

(See also: Julio Geordio on the Fast Show)

But yeah, hats off to Brad for his lingualistics.

[Exit Stage Left]

Bradley had five years on French teams, FdJ, Credit Agricole and Cofidis. I can remember him turning up at the Southport 10 in Credit Agricole and Cofidis tops. So I'd expect his French to be pretty good.

[mattc]

I can remember him turning up at the Southport 10 in Credit Agricole and Cofidis tops.

Surely a breach of CTT regs?!?

[Exit Stage Left]

I've also seen him marshal, to allow his wife to get get her first 10 in following the birth of their second child. He's been around a long time, his first team was the Linda Mc Cartney squad in 2001.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I can remember him turning up at the Southport 10 in Credit Agricole and Cofidis tops.

Surely a breach of CTT regs?!?

Be reasonable, it was a cold evening.

[citoyen]

Bradley had five years on French teams, FdJ, Credit Agricole and Cofidis. I can remember him turning up at the Southport 10 in Credit Agricole and Cofidis tops. So I'd expect his French to be pretty good.

And not forgetting the fact that he's actually Belgian.

d.

[David Martin]

Or australian?

[citoyen]

Half Belgian, half Australian.

And half British.

d.

[Exit Stage Left]

Bradley had five years on French teams, FdJ, Credit Agricole and Cofidis. I can remember him turning up at the Southport 10 in Credit Agricole and Cofidis tops. So I'd expect his French to be pretty good.

And not forgetting the fact that he's actually Belgian.

d.

Have you ever tried speaking French in Flanders?