Also, I think taking journalists serious is not always a correct approach.. Journalists can be like politicians.. They rave for ratings. It is not seeking a Pulitizer, but some kind of popularity contest with their management or coying up to a certain type of readership, in their quest for popularity..
I think this can explain this journalists approach to trashing our prime cycling athletes.. Endurance wise, I would stack up our athletes any day to the average baseball or football player. Endurance is the trademark of an athlete and cyclists qualify in that category..
Funny, I have heard newspaper journalists trash cycle riders, hitting in things like cycle attire; when they haven't the slightest interest in understanding funcationality.
Well, you popularity craved sports casters- football players wear funny clothing also..