Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

He was asked a question, amongst many others, in a press conference at 10:30 pm last night, a few hours after winning a gold medal at the Olympics. I think most of us would struggle to come up with a coherent answer, never mind please a bunch of internet forum people, if we were in this situation.

I don't give a tinker's cuss about his foundation and don't see how it is relevant to this discussion.

I think you're missing the point I am trying to make then.

By starting a foundation with bold claims about the country's health, you are clearly exhibiting an interest in something beyond racing. He is attempting to make a difference in the healthiness and activeness of the country. Which I commend whole-heartedly.

Once you make that leap however, you can't then separate racer from campaigner. Like it or not, he became a campaigner the day he started that foundation. If he wants to comment on safety and helmets, like he has done so before in interviews, then at least make the effort to speak to some people who spend their lives researching it beforehand.

I agree, he was caught off-guard, nobody expected it, but choose not to answer it. Say it's not his place to comment on safety without facts or knowledge of what happened.

I'm not trying to take his achievement away from him. He did something epic. I just think he should have known better than to fall for a cheap media/interviewer trick.