Nicolas Roche on Late Late Show Next Friday

Raam

http://twitter.com/worldwidecycles/statuses/5537985007

RT @azzurrisports: NIcholas Roche on the Late Late show next Friday night, 13th November.

petethedrummer

Ha, they must have listened to me, I wrote in a few weeks saying they should have Roche, Martin and Deignan on the show.

ednwireland

typical though deignan wins a stage of the vuelta and roche gets on the late late :rolleyes:
wonder why

shapez

ednwireland wrote: »

typical though deignan wins a stage of the vuelta and roche gets on the late late :rolleyes:
wonder why

Daddy has moved to higher places now.

UCI appoints new members to ProTour Council
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-appoints-new-members-to-protour-council

And, sure Stephan is loved on the late late anyway... :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzobgaskqpg

I have nothing against Nicholas, he is a superb rider and he will do big things next season if this one is anything to go by.

DeadMan1

nice youtube link ... forgot about that already

in fairness to Nicolas, he's quite the character in his own right ... his TdeF diary was great. looking forward to friday

The Crunch

Hi, does anyone know if the infamous Late Late Show appearance of Roche and Kimmage is available on the web anywhere?

72hundred

The Crunch wrote: »

Hi, does anyone know if the infamous Late Late Show appearance of Roche and Kimmage is available on the web anywhere?

I never heard about this - what made it so infamous?

redmaxi

I'd love to see that myself. i thought it was only Kimmage though. In 'Rough Ride' he says Gaybo was very frosty towards him asking "what about out boys ?", meaning Roche and the King of course.

Zipp101

This will be Nico's official introduction to the Irish people. I hope he comes accross well.

tunney

shapez wrote: »

Daddy has moved to higher places now.

UCI appoints new members to ProTour Council
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-appoints-new-members-to-protour-council

And, sure Stephan is loved on the late late anyway... :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzobgaskqpg

I have nothing against Nicholas, he is a superb rider and he will do big things next season if this one is anything to go by.

Oh great, the man who introduced EPO to the pro-peleton (allegedly) is now on the protour council

shapez

tunney wrote: »

Oh great, the man who introduced EPO to the pro-peleton (allegedly) is now on the protour council

And we must pay strong emphases on "allegedly". Since he nearly sued Paul Kimmage over mentioning his name in Rough Ride. :rolleyes:

niceonetom

According to the worldwide cycles twitterfeed it will be father and son performance.

Caroline_ie

niceonetom wrote: »

According to the worldwide cycles twitterfeed it will be father and son performance.

still ... it's tubriby that i don't want to see ...

So Nick, you cycle, Right? You cycles bikes? that's it? Tell us how it is that you cycle bikes?

Ghost Rider

TUBRIDY: So... bikes, bikes. Do you collect bikes, Nicolas? How many bikes do you own?

ROCHE: No, I'm a professional cyclist, Ryan. I don't really collect bikes.

TUBRIDY: Really? I had a Grifter when I was 10. Ha ha. Did you ever have a Grifter?

ROCHE: No.

TUBRIDY: I bet you wanted one, though, didn't you? I wanted a Chopper, but they came with a warning: "THIS VEHICLE IS NOT CONSTRUCTED TO CARRY PASSENGERS". Ha ha ha.

[Cut to shot of audience rocking with laughter, filmed earlier that evening.]

TUBRIDY: Let's take a quick break. And when we come back: Amanda Brunker! OOOOH!

Caroline_ie wrote: »

still ... it's tubriby that i don't want to see ...

So Nick, you cycle, Right? You cycles bikes? that's it? Tell us how it is that you cycle bikes?

Hungrycol

Caroline_ie wrote: »

still ... it's tubriby that i don't want to see ...

So Nick, you cycle, Right? You cycles bikes? that's it? Tell us how it is that you cycle bikes?

Better than wooden Kenny though.

So Stephen who's this young man sitting beside you?
That's my son Nicholas.
That's great, great. So... Stephen who have you brought with you tonight?

Esroh

RT So Nicholas tou rode a tour of France. Was that fun.
NR Well i did enjoy it, was good to ride the Biggest Grand Tour and go so well
RT Oh Ya . How come you did not go Touring with your Cousin Dan and Philip from Donegal in September in Spain, Could you not get the time off

Captain Havoc

He'll ask Stephen loads of questions about his life and then ask Nicolas loads of questions about Stephens life.

velo.2010

Tubridy: what is it like riding with Lance Armstrong?

Roche jr: Yeah great privilage but I was even more impressed by Alber....

Tubridy: Sorry to interrupt but did Lance say anything to you about your father or anything?

Roche jr: No he was very busy, lots of people around him and he was concentrating on the race....

Tubridy: Sorry to cut in again but did you hear of any guys up to no good during the Tour?

Roche jr: How do you mean?

And so on. Tubridy has no interest in sport and will ask only about the usual stuff.

Funkyzeit

shapez wrote: »

And we must pay strong emphases on "allegedly". :rolleyes:

Nothing alleged about it - he was administered EPO by Conconi according to Italian courts..

Dura Ace

When you google "Nicolas Roche" and "Late Late", this is one of the hits you get. Strange!

Cathal Ó Searcaigh (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkahəlˠ ɔ ˈʃaɾˠki]; born 1956) is an Irish poet who writes in the Irish language (specifically the Ulster dialect).
Ó Searcaigh was born in Gort a' Choirce, a town in the Gaeltacht region of Donegal, and lives at the foot of Mount Errigal. He is openly gay.Cathal is an avid cyclist and is a close friend to Irish cyclist Nicolas Roche .

oflahero

Dura Ace wrote: »

When you google "Nicolas Roche" and "Late Late", this is one of the hits you get. Strange!

Cathal Ó Searcaigh (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkahəlˠ ɔ ˈʃaɾˠki]; born 1956) is an Irish poet who writes in the Irish language (specifically the Ulster dialect).
Ó Searcaigh was born in Gort a' Choirce, a town in the Gaeltacht region of Donegal, and lives at the foot of Mount Errigal. He is openly gay.Cathal is an avid cyclist and is a close friend to Irish cyclist Nicolas Roche .

Some savage cycling in Nepal I'd say.

redmaxi

Ghost Rider wrote: »

TUBRIDY: Really? I had a Grifter when I was 10. Ha ha. Did you ever have a Grifter?

ROCHE: No.

That's hilarious, my older brother had a grifter. 3 speed thing, the weight of it !
I have to say though having met Stephen earlier in the year if Nick is anything like him - he's one hell of a nice fella.

ednwireland

oflahero wrote: »

Some savage cycling in Nepal I'd say.

offroad probably

Hungrycol

Funkyzeit wrote: »

Nothing alleged about it - he was administered EPO by Conconi according to Italian courts..

Italian courts? Ah that explains it. The Italians hated that he won their race.

RobFowl

Funkyzeit wrote: »

Nothing alleged about it - he was administered EPO by Conconi according to Italian courts..

Investigation report about Conconi (where 21 riders and 7 doctors confessed the doping practise), was filed by Donati in feb.1994, directly to CONIs president, but the report mysteriously disappeared. In Oct.1996 an Italian journalist made the conclusions from the report known to public, and this was the first time the public became aware of a big doping scandal in Cycling. Within few days the disappeared report suddenly reappeared again, but only in Oct.1998 the police made a raid on Ferrara. The Ferrara institute did in 1981-1998 blood analysis on 421 athletes, and received 3mio Euro in financial support from CONI. Despite of the legal case against Conconi, he was in 2000 still employed by both UCI, CONI, and IOC.

In 2001 Conconi was still president of the UCI medical commission, with the responsibility to protect the riders health in Cycling!!! The Ferrara court case ended in 2003 with no legal penalties, due to the case turning to old, and the lack of an explicit doping law in Italy. Nevertheless the Italian court concluded, that systematic EPO doping was going on for all riders at the teams Carrera and Gewiss Ballan from 1993-1995. Furthermore the court concluded that Dr.Conconi, Dr.Grazzi, Dr.Casoni and Dr.Ferrari was moral guilty of doping 66 riders, 14 skiers and 2 runners in 1993-1998. The names of implicated riders and athletes was revealed to the public in 1999, where a Gewiss Ballan soigneur further confirmed, that EPO indeed had been administered from Ferrari and Casoni.

Dr.Ferrari was working at the Ferrara institute and operating as team doctor for Gewiss Ballan in 1994. But in 1995 he left that job, and started up his own private practice, where he continued to "prepare" many famous riders. There was a separate legal case against Ferrari, since there was found more recent evidence against him in the police raid. He was convicted guilty in Oct. 2004 of "sporting fraud" and "doping prescription", and received life ban from FCI. In the "Ferrari network", there was also 15 other persons accused (pharmacists, physicians and team staff from Refin and Riso Scotti), while all riders got "amnesty". In example, both Giro-winner Tonkov(1996) and Gotti(1997) was proved guilty of unnatural Hematocrite fluctuations when they won, but they was never condemned. Fillippo Simeoni testified that team director Davide Boifava, was full aware of the doping practice on Carrera in 1996. Riders in the special Ferrari case, all had training tables with a secret *, symbolizing an EPO injection. Armstrong was a client of Ferrari in 1995-2004, but was not among the implicated riders in this giant legal case.

66 riders (93-98): Allocchio, Artunghi, Barsotelli, Bernhard, Bertolini, Berzin, Bobrik, Bontempi, Bortolami, Bottaro, Brignoli, Bugno, Cavallini, Cenghialta, Checchin, Chiappucci, Chiesa, Chiurato, Cipollini, Cobalchini, Convalle, De las Cuevas, Della-Bianca, Dufaux, Escartin, Faresin, Fondriest, Frattini, Furlan, Ghirotto, Gotti, Kappes, Livingston, E.Mazzoleni (96-98), A.Merckx, Miceli, Minali, Molinari, Mentheour, Moser (83-85), Olano, Pantani, Perini, Pontoni, Pulnikov, Riis, S.Roche, Rominger, Roscioli, Rossi, Santaromita, Savoldelli, Schiavina, Siboni, F.Simeoni(97), R.Sørensen, Tonkov, Ugrumov, Vandenbroucke, Vanzella, Volpi, Zaina, Zanette, B.Zberg, Zen, Zülle.

14 skiers (85-98): Albarello, Barco, Chiaffoi, Clos, Confortola, De Zolt, Di Centa, Fauner, Giulio, Polvara, Pulie, Vanzetta, Venturini, Walder.

2 runners (93-95): DaMilano, Scaunich.
http://www.skitrax.com/index.php?module=Section&action=viewdetail&item_id=4867

This summarises it quite well !!

ednwireland

Hungrycol wrote: »

Italian courts? Ah that explains it. The Italians hated that he won their race.

visentini woz robbed

shapez

Funkyzeit wrote: »

Nothing alleged about it - he was administered EPO by Conconi according to Italian courts..

Them Italians, they'll get you at some stage no matter what!!

(I knew he was on Conconi's list but I genuinely thought he wasn't convicted of it though.)

Raam

And yet another thread descends into a doping discussion. In an attempt to draw this back to Nicolas, here is a picture of him at the front of the bunch over the Tourmalet (I think).

godihatethehils

.....and one of Ryan

tunney

Raam wrote: »

And yet another thread descends into a doping discussion. In an attempt to draw this back to Nicolas, here is a picture of him at the front of the bunch over the Tourmalet (I think).

This photo? Accident or deliberate. Alot can be read into juxtaposition

ednwireland

godihatethehils wrote: »

.....and one of Ryan

awwww they cut half of ryans face off

Raam

tunney wrote: »

This photo? Accident or deliberate. Alot can be read into juxtaposition

ah he must be a good 10 feet away at least

TinyExplosions

Raam wrote: »

ah he must be a good 10 feet away at least

That's cos of all the EPO

Raam

Bump

Caroline_ie

Raam wrote: »

Bump

ouch

Raam

Caroline_ie wrote: »

ouch

Sorry luv, didn't see ya dere

Slideshowbob

Latest odds with Paddy Power:

Nicolas to wear white shoes 3/1

Nicolas to wear cream shoes 4/1

Captain Havoc

Raam wrote: »

Bump

Cheers for that, I forgot

Zipp101

Nicolas to wear French jersey
Stephen to wear Irish jersey

What are the odds?

blorg

Zipp101 wrote: »

Nicolas to wear French jersey
Stephen to wear Irish jersey

What are the odds?

You are stirring, he declared for Ireland. For what it's worth I would not hold it against him if he reckoned he would have a better chance declaring French. Tough as a young pro and all that.

Caroline_ie

Nha ... yellow shirt for stephen, green for nicolas .

OMG it's like we're on Expose or something

RobFowl

blorg wrote: »

You are stirring, he declared for Ireland. .

Then for France and then for Ireland again :rolleyes:

Have to say the dual nationality thing I can understand, my wife is British and Irish (british passport) my kids are Irish and British (dual nationality).

blorg

RobFowl wrote: »

Then for France and then for Ireland again :rolleyes:

Have to say the dual nationality thing I can understand, my wife is British and Irish (british passport) my kids are Irish and British (dual nationality).

Yes, and Nicolas is legitimately French through his mother, we are lucky to have him.

Caroline_ie

i think Ronan Keating is trying to hide the fact he's going bald ...
Are Jedward singing on the show?

Captain Havoc

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Are Jedward singing on the show?

Didn't know they could

Caroline_ie

jerseyeire wrote: »

Didn't know they could

Can Ronan Keating?

el tel

Oh my sweet Jesus! This Tubridy fella is pure car-crash TV. What a ****ing plum.

72hundred

Any idea when roche is on? I don't want to watch tuburty for too long and southpark is a better alternative till then!

ednwireland

RobFowl wrote: »

Then for France and then for Ireland again :rolleyes:

Have to say the dual nationality thing I can understand, my wife is British and Irish (british passport) my kids are Irish and British (dual nationality).

dual wimp

my mums polish my dads russian i was born in england and lived 12 years in ireland nyah

turbidy yaaaaawn

am i the only one who doesnt find gift grub funny ?

Captain Havoc

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Can Ronan Keating?

"When you say nothing at all" is one of my party pieces, I do like a bit of Ronan.

blorg

What's happening? Is Nicolas on? I don't have a TV.

Fun Fact: did you know the Late Late is 2h10m long.