This man is amazing
What did I tell you? Samu is indeed a very likeable guy who has got his feet firmly planted on Mother Earth. And he's a very generous person who knows what has brought him his success. Amazingly, he's now decided he's going to share the prize money he got for winning the Olympics with his four team-mates on the day; Contador, Valverde, Sastre and Freire. And he's going to share it equally. He's reported to have received 94.000 euro for his big win, and is now looking to repay his team-mates for their work, though in a bit more literal way than usual. Once again he amazes me. He really makes me proud.
4 comments:
Nice gesture, but isn't it an unwritten rule in cycling to share the prize money with your teammates? At least on the normal teams it is, but one would think this was also the standard on national teams, or am I wrong about this?
The tourwinner does normally, but I dunno the real ethics and rules in cycling about this.
He seriously doesn't seem to care about money though :D
It's not normal in races like the Olympics and when you're racing for the national team I think. The Spanish newspapers are all praising samu. This isn't the norm, it's a one-off.
Okay, I think it's absolutely the right thing to do, after all they helped him win (especially Sastre and Contador) and they don't get the extra sponsor income that Samu does afterwards. In my mind, any decent person would do this, so it's surprising that this isn't normal, great to see Samu setting a new standard, once again :)
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