Nic Dlamini

[IceCreamMan]

Naai jou maatjie is never ok, even more so for a supposedly role model. 

[Robbie Stewart]

I read this quote by C.S. Lewis and it resonates with me. I think it may apply;

"I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions, but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. For a long time I used to think this is a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? 
But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life, namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about it. In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things. 
Consequently, Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid. 
But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry that the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is in any way possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere he can be cured and made human again. 
I admit that this means loving people who have nothing lovable about them. But then, has oneself anything lovable about it? You love it simply because it is yourself. God intends us to love ourselves in the same way and for the same reason: that He has given us the sum ready worked out in our own case to show us how it works. We have then to go on and apply the rule to all other selves. 
Perhaps it makes it easier if we remember that that is how He loves us. Not for any nice, attractive qualities we think we have, but just because we are the things called selves. For really there is nothing in us to love."
C.S. Lewis

[betaboy]

Nic couid get free counsel sessions on here for nada… maybe this limelight sponsor thing is just what he needs to pedal one wrong into two rights? Pity the sport of cycling doesn’t always draw the true ambassadors we all really require to put the sport in a good light. Maybe the next Gen can fix and learn from past mistakes.🙏🏻🇿🇦

[love2fly]

19 hours ago, betaboy said:

Nic couid get free counsel sessions on here for nada… maybe this limelight sponsor thing is just what he needs to pedal one wrong into two rights? Pity the sport of cycling doesn’t always draw the true ambassadors we all really require to put the sport in a good light. Maybe the next Gen can fix and learn from past mistakes.🙏🏻🇿🇦

Not just cycling ...rugby has had the same as have a few other sports.....

Edited February 7 by love2fly

[117]

Bad advertising is good avertising... 4 pages later

#justsayin

 

[tinmug]

Don't follow road racing, no next to zero about Nic Dlamini. But have gathered a little bit of perspective on life after many decades of butting my head. 

The man kept some money for something he could not send the buyer. Bad. He pedalled a bicycle in France. Good.

Nic is a human. Humans make mistakes. Humans are full of schh ... shprockets and won't readily admit mistakes. We are (mostly) all human. We have all made mistakes. Take whatever he has done on the chin (perhaps even more so if your opinion of Nic is formed by what you have read on the internet ... hullo!) and move on. Really, your collective lives will be better if you write it off as a hiccup and go for a ride to enjoy the fresh air. I am a 100% certain Nic has a whole pile of good qualities. 

 

[SwissVan]

Once a chop always a tjop

 

[Mamil]

51 minutes ago, SwissVan said:

Once a chop always a tjop

 

Case in point

[Mike Dewing]

1 hour ago, SwissVan said:

Once a chop always a tjop

 

I was reading the above post and thinking yeah maybe @tinmug is right and whatever he hasn’t harmed me, blah blah.. 

But unfortunately I think @SwissVan is correct.. the empathy f&cked off way faster than it arrived  🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Mike Dewing]

1 hour ago, SwissVan said:

Once a chop always a tjop

 

I was reading the above post and thinking yeah maybe @tinmug is right and whatever he hasn’t harmed me, blah blah.. 

But unfortunately I think @SwissVan is correct.. the empathy f&cked off way faster than it arrived  🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Barry]

2 hours ago, Mike Dewing said:

I was reading the above post and thinking yeah maybe @tinmug is right and whatever he hasn’t harmed me, blah blah.. 

But unfortunately I think @SwissVan is correct.. the empathy f&cked off way faster than it arrived  🤣🤣🤣🤣

Self-help Singh- Make Mistakes

 

Edited February 7 by Barry

[Lynskey]

4 hours ago, tinmug said:

Don't follow road racing, no next to zero about Nic Dlamini. But have gathered a little bit of perspective on life after many decades of butting my head. 

The man kept some money for something he could not send the buyer. Bad. He pedalled a bicycle in France. Good.

Nic is a human. Humans make mistakes. Humans are full of schh ... shprockets and won't readily admit mistakes. We are (mostly) all human. We have all made mistakes. Take whatever he has done on the chin (perhaps even more so if your opinion of Nic is formed by what you have read on the internet ... hullo!) and move on. Really, your collective lives will be better if you write it off as a hiccup and go for a ride to enjoy the fresh air. I am a 100% certain Nic has a whole pile of good qualities. 

 

He should tap in to them soon and start using them then?

[SwissVan]

2 hours ago, Mamil said:

Case in point

It must be Friday 

[ChrisF]

7 hours ago, SwissVan said:

Once a chop always a tjop

 

 

This is AFRICA  (read in the Vin Diesel tone for "This is BRAZILLL...)

 

Here we braai tjops ....

['Dale]

From the Sunday couch, sipping on a lekka coffee, musing and chilling:

These pics from Nicholas Dlamini's social media account (one legendary pic by Alex Broadway at ToB) reflect beautifully the nuanced and complicated life of a talented young man. He had the superb athletic capabilities that may have been the foundations of a very successful career at the highest level. However, there are questions around athlete management matters, psychosocial issues and other private stuff that would be unknown to the fans, the public and the peanut gallery.

Not getting to Paris would've been extremely tough on him as he finished out of time limit in the mountains on Stage 9, I think. Wearing the mountain climbing jersey at Tour Down Under and Tour Of Britain was so cool to follow. Undoubtedly, a life in professional cycling that could have been so much more.

Like most young adults in professional sport, they often lack consistent mentoring, and the sufficient support and guidance that is essential to minimise risks and threats that can potentially avoid the derailing of a young and promising career. This is not my opinion and is drawn from observations and experience in the world of work.
You may be surprised in the lack of the duty of care for young men and women in professional sport, generally speaking of course. It looks glamorous and sensational from the outside, however, there is a tough interior world that requires a level of grit, luck, resilience and self-sacrifice that very few can sustain. That is why so many dream of being a PRO and so few get there. Bottom line, the young mind needs developmental support in both high-performance and in the dynamics of this thing called Life. Athletes are human first.

Geez, the poor judgement I had in my 20s and the crazy risks I took which fortunately did not curb my potential. I would not have wanted to be exposed to the public. I searched for and found a mentor in my late 20s and have found a way through to becoming more self-aware and 'upgrade' my attitude, choices and lifestyle. And, like a plant, I need ongoing maintenance and care to avoid sabotaging my life and fulfilling my unique gift.

A useful and helluva challenging approach for me as I look at others' lives is to 'Be strict with yourself; be tolerant of others'(Stoicism).

If you are reading, Nic’, go make your new opportunities as a brand ambassador count and make your 30s an awesome time for resetting and rebuilding your career arc.

Edited Sunday at 04:28 PM by 'Dale

[IceCreamMan]

In a nutshell, don’t sell items you have no intention of delivering.