Rossi and Nieto at Le Man

 Excuse me dragging this up, but I only just watched the French MotoGP
race from Le Mans (er, I was in the operating theatre when it was
first broadcast ...)

I thought Rossi's celebration with Angel Nieto was amazing.  Rossi has
continually shown that he's a fan with a sense of history of the sport
- when he equalled Mike Hailwood's 76 (?) wins he had a banner saying
"Sorry Mike", but this was something else.   He got Nieto (who's now
62) kitted up in leathers and let him ride the M1 back to the pits
while Rossi sat on the back and waved a '90 + 90' flag (for 90 wins
each).  I thought it was extremely touching.

This for me is why I'm a fan of Rossi - he genuinely seems to love the
sport.  He loves to ride the bike, he loves to race, and he loves that
he's part of the history.  Contrast him with never-happy Stoner or the
automaton-like Pedrosa.
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This is just a guess, but I wonder if their personalities are just like that
generally - maybe it's not even that much to do with the sport, perhaps
Rossi is an open, friendly sort of guy and the others don't see why they have
to wear their heart on their sleeve.

I've said it before, but sadly a lot of top sportsmen keep "it" inside these
days, maybe they figure that showing emotion is bad as they might show
weakness.

Oh, and http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A37615421  follows on from yesterday's
discussion.

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Couldn't agree more. It's much simpler for me - I'm a fan because he's
such a genuinely decent ordinary nice person. Always ready for a laugh
and as gracious in defeat as he is magnanimous in victory. Never
blames his tools, his team, but fesses up when he makes a balls-up,
and always ready to share the honours when it all comes good.

There haven't been many like him, and I suspect that he'll go down in
history not only as the most successful GP racer of all time but also,
by a large margin, the nicest.
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Quite agree. I also admire the confidence that he would win that race!

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