In his Sunday Independent column this week, former Tour de France cyclist made it clear that he had no time for the Olympics.
"I keep hearing that I should care", he wrote. "I keep hearing that the Olympics still matter. I keep being told to accentuate the positive, not the negative, and that we've got great people there - Sinead and Claire and Sanita and Fionnuala and Pádraig and Paddy and Michael and Leona and Gary and Paul and Ciara, to name a few - and that if the Olympics matter to them, they should matter to us.
That's fair. But you can't tell people what they should and should not feel. They either feel it or they don't. They either buy it or they don't.
And I don't.
I'm not buying Thomas Bach. I'm not buying Craig Reedie. I'm not buying Pat Hickey or Dick Pound or Seb Coe. I'd rather have Citius, Altius, Fortius tattooed to my wrinkled penis with a rusty nail than to have anything to do with the Lords of the Rings or their circus. That's why I'm in Portugal this week, not Rio."
