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Clarification on Cycle News Article
“The opinions expressed regarding James Stewart during the Cycle News interview with Jeremy Albrecht on the 21st of April and subsequent article by Kit Palmer do not reflect my or Joe Gibbs Racing’s thoughts with respect to James. My experience with James is he is a responsive communicator, even late at night he always calls me back. With respect to being at the track, it’s often my call on whether a rider is healthy enough to race. I know it’s always best for the fans when as many riders as possible are racing, but there are times when it makes sense, especially when a championship is not on the line, to spend a little more time rehabbing an injury so he can come back strong and not risk further injury. James is a racer and there’s no doubt that if it is safe for him to race he will be on the gate. Anything that was perceived to be negative toward James in the article is regrettable. We hold James in high regard and I wanted to make our thoughts on the article clear.” – Coy Gibbs, Team owner.
“The opinions expressed regarding James Stewart during the Cycle News interview with Jeremy Albrecht on the 21st of April and subsequent article by Kit Palmer do not reflect my or Joe Gibbs Racing’s thoughts with respect to James. My experience with James is he is a responsive communicator, even late at night he always calls me back. With respect to being at the track, it’s often my call on whether a rider is healthy enough to race. I know it’s always best for the fans when as many riders as possible are racing, but there are times when it makes sense, especially when a championship is not on the line, to spend a little more time rehabbing an injury so he can come back strong and not risk further injury. James is a racer and there’s no doubt that if it is safe for him to race he will be on the gate. Anything that was perceived to be negative toward James in the article is regrettable. We hold James in high regard and I wanted to make our thoughts on the article clear.” – Coy Gibbs, Team owner.
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"Some jurisdictions have retraction statutes that provide protection from defamation lawsuits if the publisher retracts the allegedly defamatory statement." Source EFF - Online Defamation Law.
what i don't understand is that this is an ongoing thing with Stewart, drama follows him at every turn.
why?
BP
I bet B J's called coy up and said "start moon walking".
Pit Row
Traction gate. Jeremy on an SX tv broadcast in 2011, pontificates that James, while on Team L&M still, is cheating more or less. Low brow move I always thought.
This year, despite being sponsored by Pirelli, Jeremy decides to run works Dunlops in practice. With the Dunlop scratched off I believe?
Gives an interview to Cycle News speaking about his star rider in a perhaps truthful, yet negative light. Team owner feels the need to issue a clarification to stem any bad repercussions.
It's funny how some people here have trouble reading and comprehending very plain english. Coy said the opinion's expressed in the article (Albrecht's interview, so Albrecht's opinions) do not reflect the team or team owner's "thoughts with respect to James."
What makes that "baloney?"
How is that a "retraction?"
How is this "saving face?"
He never said Albrecht wasn't entitled to his opinion. But he did clarify that he never has a problem communicating with James. Yet you guys want to twist that around into some type of "coddling?" Get a grip.
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