ROHAN DENNIS An Accident or An Accident Waiting to Happen?

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Inside the bizarre Tour departure of Rohan Dennis

https://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/a28447917/tour-de-france-rohan-dennis/
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/world-champion-rohan-dennis-rides-the-long-road-to-redemption-20200117-p53sfe.html


https://www.sbs.com.au/sport/article/rohan-dennis-a-complex-situation-with-no-easy-answers/o964mo3fi

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With news filtering through that the world time trial Champion Ryan Dennis had mysteriously abandoned the tour his bar and marid teammate tny C Bry moved up to the front on the climb there’s a bunch of speculation but Rohan Dennis just just pulling out of the race super

Odd I mean just pulling out when apparently was super aggressive today making the Breakaway with my feels and it Hearts me much deeper I got nightmares in my head hello and welcome to True Crime rocket science the most authentic voice in true crime in the previous analysis I

Described the price of the house and the cost of the vehicle involved in the incident are these really a factor or finances a factor when you have a family and you’re retiring in your early 30s well I would imagine they have to be but even if you’ve made a truckload of money

Truckloads of money only go so far when you have a family of four and no one is really working anymore and so one wonders what were the underlying stresses driving this incident that could be a stressor but I think the more important question is regarding the temperament of Rowan

Dennis this same question was asked Once Upon a Time about OJ Simpson and Oscar Pistorius we were asking the same thing about Colin Strickland and K and Armstrong that was during our analysis of the mo Wilson trial so in effect what are we asking what we asking is he a

Hotthead the question has relevance given what we know and what has been captured on video at the scene before we get to that if you haven’t subscribed to the Channel please do if you’re finding this analysis worthwhile please like share leave a comment you can also hit

The thanks button and let’s get started now according to the media um and according to a specific newspaper I think it’s called The Advertiser police who have viewed security video believe that Melissa H Hoskins 32 jumped into the hood or onto the hood of the Volkswagen while Dennis

33 was behind the wheel and she tried to grab the door handle now the part that problematic with with all of this is that Dennis allegedly did not stop the vehicle but he kept driving and as a result the mother of two fell to the ground and it seems

Likely seems logical that when she fell to the ground she was driven over and as a result of that she was severely injured and died at a local hospital now that’s also important to stress she didn’t die at the scene she didn’t die in the road she was kept alive and then

Died at a local hospital now although we don’t know why Hoskins jumped on the vehicle the bigger question I think is why Dennis did not hit the brakes well allegedly why didn’t he stop why didn’t he stop immediately after that Hoskins and Dennis both former Olympians who recently retired married in 2018 Dennis

Has not entered a plea and his you back in court on March 13th again the critical question is why didn’t Dennis allegedly not hit the brakes I think it’s early days to be cobbling together an identity and we get temperament through identity and clearly in the world of professional sports one

Tantrum doesn’t make a hotthead but it has to be said on stage 12 of the 2019 TT of France Rowan Dennis did something that seldom if ever seen anywhere by anyone in professional cycling according to bicycling magazine that covered this incident at the time quote Dennis quit

At the base of the CER peris sword the first of two category 1 climbs on Thursday stage in the Pines the 29-year-old Australian did not give any reasons for quitting but later called it the right decision based on how he was feeling the Bahrain merid ride has been

Trying to make the early Breakaway or he had been trying to make the early Breakaway in stage 12 a largely transitional stage between to lose and bagares de Bo not sure if I’m pronouncing that right but with about 80 kilomet to go he threw in the tow

Failing to alert his team in the process officials then treated him as a missing person on the stage for I mean get this for a few hours no one knew where he was and his team even released an alarming statement on Twitter as per bicycling magazine quote our priority is the

Welfare of all our Riders so we will launch an immediate investigation but will not be commenting further until we have established what has happened to Rowan Dennis so even his team didn’t know where they were and then another magazine V later reported on Dennis’s bizarre to a departure they wrote Rowan

Dennis dressed casually walked off his bus and straight toward a Finish Line that he never crossed he was flanked by his agent Andrew McQuade and his press officer behind him reporters and cameras trailed like the tail of a comet his tour to France was over and he wouldn’t

Say why 2 hours earlier some 80 km into the 12th stage of the tour at a feed Zone Dennis climbed off his bike and leaned against the back of a Bahrain soier car his first team car was ahead behind the brake and the second car the one behind the main pelaton drove right

Past him it parked further up the road well you can’t drive backwards on the tour route under any circumstances and so the sports director had to run back and he said we tried to speak we tried to speak with him and he was standing in a 10 Deep media scrum outside the team

Bus off the stage he said we stopped the car and tried to find a solution to what’s going on but he would not talk so basically he just just got off the bike without telling anyone without giving any explanation and basically played the the strong silent type now the interesting

Aftermath to all of this was that b marid fired Rowan Dennis and he then appealed for unfair dismissal and and lost well lost as far as I know at the time the only explanation which came from the sports director of the team was for sure it’s got nothing to do with his

Physical condition now if Dennis could abandon the tour without so much as an explanation could he abandon his home orbe a temporarily in a similar and similarly alarming way well this is what came up four years ago in V this idea dealing with his mental health apparently from his own teammates quote

We do know he has genuine problems with explosive angry responses to relatively inoc challenges he’s a hotthead former teammates managers team team staff it seems everyone has a Rowan Story Each Rider or team member I contacted in the last few hours said some version of the

Same yes it’s a problem this isn’t the first time it’s a pattern now recently in the aftermath to this horrible tragedy in Adelaide we’ we’ve heard a similar if cryptic remark from Melissa Hoskins manager what is her name uh relle Gilmore who said from the moment she started dating Rowan she committed 100%

To all of the troubles and difficulties that he went through in his career and it’s hard to imagine that some of these weren’t self-created according to v news quote he needs help two former teammates told me asking that I not use any specific stories they told it’s a phrase that

Turns the story from one of bmuse confusion why wouldn’t why wouldn’t Elite athlete do that to one that feels quite sad well now it feels like we it’s elevated it’s uh been escalated to the point not of sad but tragic and horrible so in 2019 what prompted that rash move

To quit what is the background to that whole story well according to V quote there were rumors of an argument at the team bus that morning a representive for euros Sports said that she and her team witnessed obvious tensions between Dennis and his team meanwhile the sports

Director said that there was no argument that morning we know that Dennis has had issues with his time trial bike all season was Dennis sent back for bottles or some other Duty that he felt was insulting to a ride of his caliber no I never asked him to bring the water in

The race his Sports director said actually I even said to him for the last two days yesterday and today say save your energy for tomorrow for tomorrow’s time trial the sports director did his best to explain without quite explaining anything he did say regarding Rowan he’s a special guy let’s say all the

Champions are he’s really 100% when he wants something it’s difficult to make everybody happy in every single moment and so you from that statement you kind of get a feeling a perception that you dealing with someone who’s quite sensitive but perhaps also quite spoiled now you can imagine a champion

And perhaps being a perfectionist and getting everything he wants in a professional situation someone who’s used to having his way who’s used to perhaps being treated like royalty finding himself suddenly in a family setting where things are completely different family life especially with two small children and I

Mean Christmas is a time where where that is front and center where family life is kind of the focus and a lot of the other things are sort of given um you know postponed or or given second priority family life is you know family life and that is

Arguably about the opposite to being the center of attention it’s about sacrifice it’s about not getting what you want going back to the article in v he’s the guy he wants to have everything 100% it’s not easy to have everything 100% the specifics of the slight are largely irrelevant to the end

Result I’ve got a feeling the same can and will be said about whatever happened on the 30th there was some slight that perhaps he took personally and then his temperament possibly took over possibly going back to V this is a ride who made a decision

On the side of the road to pull himself out of the world’s biggest Bike Race on the eve of his best chance to win a stage with no apparent physical ailments of any kind there’s no argument with management no spat with a teammate that justifies that decision or makes it

Rational and I think the same can be said about what’s just happened no argument with a wife or child no spat with a spouse justifies what apparently allegedly happened here and and so if it’s not rational then it’s irrational or put otherwise isn’t it isn’t it uh

Emotional in 2015 a Blog described Rowan Dennis somewhat tongue and cheek as The Angriest Man in procycling before quipping are you frightened because I’m not frightened and then in July 2019 the telegraph took this issue a lot more seriously quote Dennis does have a reputation as a hotthead and there are

Rumors that he was UN happy with his time trial kit and his team he was seen arguing with team staff before the start of Thursday stage but another clue for his behavior May lie in an interview he did with a Stanley Street social podcast in January when he alluded to mental

Health issues so this is quite important it’s where Rowan Dennis himself in his own words talks about his own mental health and this this is what he said he said to this day there are times when I think what the H am am I doing in 2018 I

Reckoned there were half a dozen times when I thought I could quit right now and January last year was the big one I did not want to race my bike ever again I was over the sport but after a while you snap out of it and maybe it’s a bit

Of a depressed period for a week or something and then you realize why you like it again I have these little periods when things aren’t going well across the board sometimes it’s a bit tough it’s the same with every job you’re bashing your head against the

Wall what am I doing what am I doing eventually that wall shows a crack and and then you okay that’s why I’m doing it but I still go through those periods in an SPS sport article Dennis is described as unashamed unashamedly a sensitive one strike and your out

Personality he can be jovial insightful and kindly acknowledge those he warrants if he perceives you’ve wronged him however good luck I don’t know this is kind of a disclaimer I don’t know Rowan Dennis very well I haven’t really followed him as much as other Riders but

When you Google the idea of Rowan Dennis hothead you do come up with some coverage in the mainstream media is it relevant is it relevant to what happened here let me know in the comments thank you for listening and I’ll see you guys next Time Oh