Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, gold medal won
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Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, gold medal won
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Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, but still a gerbil
caffetrieste wrote:
This is a pretty good story...it shows how quickly your life can change: http://cycleto.com/index.php?option=...article&id=589 I'm afraid it would have been better had she never found her stolen bike. First of all, it should be illegal to own a bicycle without brakes on it. It just doesn't look right to me. And that little black knit OJ lid she's wearing needs to stop . She looks like one of Matt Decanio's girls and just got finished modeling Stolen Underground panties for the website. This is very dangerous what happened here. Let me explain. She clearly thinks winning a national championships scratch race means something. But it doesn't. It's not even an Olympic event. It's like saying you won the gold medal in changing your oil in your car. They even call it the gold medal like some kind of pseudo-Olympics. It's all an illusion. It's probably not even made out of solid 24k gold. You could probably pick one up n Kay Jewelers in the mall for like $25. That is all. Magilla |
Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, but still a gerbil
On Oct 11, 7:39*pm, MagillaGorilla wrote:
caffetrieste wrote: This is a pretty good story...it shows how quickly your life can change: http://cycleto.com/index.php?option=...article&id=589 I'm afraid it would have been better had she never found her stolen bike. First of all, it should be illegal to own a bicycle without brakes on it. *It just doesn't look right to me. *And that little black knit OJ lid she's wearing needs to stop . *She looks like one of Matt Decanio's girls and just got finished modeling Stolen Underground panties for the website. This is very dangerous what happened here. *Let me explain. *She clearly thinks winning a national championships scratch race means something. But it doesn't. *It's not even an Olympic event. It's like saying you won the gold medal in changing your oil in your car. *They even call it the gold medal like some kind of pseudo-Olympics. *It's all an illusion. *It's probably not even made out of solid 24k gold. *You could probably pick one up n Kay Jewelers in the mall for like $25. That is all. Magilla I'd like to see her on the road more. But she wants to go to the Olympics, I think in the points race. |
Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, but still a gerbil
"MagillaGorilla" wrote in message ... So unless Shelley can do a 3:25 pursuit or better, she'll be watching the London Games at home. The Olympics are poison. Thanks, Magilla Shelley is in the progression years. Although she is taking a assistant coaching position, she's a long way from the top herself. Without doing a lot of checking, she is have a decent year, all things considered. I see she's got three years of results posted on her website, but she has 4 actually, perhaps more. She is progressing some, better then nothing. Even Leontien said it was very lonely at the top. Shelley has a long lonely road ahead, punctuated by moments of ecstasy, sheer terror and great excitement at times. You can read what a lot of pros write about the highs and lows of winning, tremendous rush of joy and excitement followed by tanking, days or months of depression. It all depends on how you handle it, Leontien had help dealing with it. Pantani obviously didn't seek enough help, or he might still be alive today. Cycling at the bottom is a long lonely season, year in and year out. If you don't progress, you need to get out, unless you just ride as nature, and just love the bike without any regard for progressing or accomplishments. If you look at Anke Wichmann, she rode for 20 years and never won anything. Yet she was perfectly stable and happy it seems. Well, she never looked happy, but she was stable, and did manage to finally get on T-Mobile without any accomplishments. She wasn't even a super domo, but for Anke, probably she just loved to race in the pro ranks, all these years, without any big accomplishments. Its true that the Olympics is like the Holy Grail for women. That's because its the only big ticket to success and fame, life in the fast lane, greatly increasing their market value. Well, at least it used to be. It's worth shooting for, if you are good. It all depends on if cycling remains part of the Olympics. Otherwise for women, success comes only after many lonely hard painful years on the road winning classics and big stage races, although the Worlds is another nifty ticket to increase you market value and success. Wearing the fabled rainbow jersey all year is the dream of all the riders. Winning the Worlds is like winning the lottery, and winning the Olympics is the grand prize lottery! Also, former past winners can wear rainbow stripes or rings on their jerseys. Although its not the same thing like the big stripes on the current holder, it still increases their market value a tad. Luperini never won the Worlds or the Olympics, in fact she never rode in a single Olympic race all these years since 1992. However, she made a excellent career for herself winning stage races, and she never won the UCI rankings or the World cup rankings, not even close. Yet she made a career out of winning classics and stage races. In 2004, I believe she was getting paid $50,000 Euros to ride for Let's Go Finland, and that's pretty good for women, although MB racers get paid more, the top ones that is. Since 2004, she won many more big events, so I think she was getting paid pretty good, all things considered compared to other top women. 50,000 Euros equals about $66,000 US, and you won't find anyone in America making that kind of money. Only Armstrong and Neben in the road ranks would make anywhere near that amount of more. Armstrong and Neben should be reaping the fruits of their endorsements, and milking them for all they are worth. Why not, they deserve it! Those two women, put in a lot of hard lonely painful years! They were the only two full time fully dedicated professional American women, and they worked the ropes on pro UCI teams too. I wonder if those old gold medals from the past have more gold in them, then the new ones? Gold is worth a ton of money per ounce now. I wonder how many champions from the past are considering melting down their gold medals for cash? Nicolas |
Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, but still a gerbil
Nicolas wrote:
Shelley is in the progression years. Although she is taking a assistant coaching position, she's a long way from the top herself. Without doing a lot of checking, she is have a decent year, all things considered. I see she's got three years of results posted on her website, but she has 4 actually, perhaps more. She is progressing some, better then nothing. Even Leontien said it was very lonely at the top. Shelley has a long lonely road ahead, punctuated by moments of ecstasy, sheer terror and great excitement at times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKqzayNo4Dk |
Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, but still a gerbil
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"Nicolas" wrote: "MagillaGorilla" wrote in message ... So unless Shelley can do a 3:25 pursuit or better, she'll be watching the London Games at home. The Olympics are poison. Luperini never won the Worlds or the Olympics, in fact she never rode in a single Olympic race all these years since 1992. However, she made a excellent career for herself winning stage races, and she never won the UCI rankings or the World cup rankings, not even close. Yet she made a career out of winning classics and stage races. In 2004, I believe she was getting paid $50,000 Euros to ride for Let's Go Finland, 50,000 Euros equals about $66,000 US, and you won't find anyone in America making that kind of money. Only Armstrong and Neben in the road ranks would make anywhere near that amount of more. Armstrong and Neben should be reaping the fruits of their endorsements, and milking them for all they are worth. Why not, they deserve it! Those two women, put in a lot of hard lonely painful years! They were the only two full time fully dedicated professional American women, and they worked the ropes on pro UCI teams too. I wonder if those old gold medals from the past have more gold in them, then the new ones? Gold is worth a ton of money per ounce now. I wonder how many champions from the past are considering melting down their gold medals for cash? Bad plan. Almost all of the "gold" medals from 1920 onwards have been gilt silver. http://www.hesge.ch/heg/vous_etes/do...hnyder_annexe1 Can someone confirm that the Albertville, Lillehammer, and Atlanta medals were substantially gold? As for women's cycling, it just doesn't pay well. There are AAA hockey players who make more than most women cyclists. -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, but still a gerbil
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Ryan Cousineau wrote: As for women's cycling, it just doesn't pay well. There are AAA hockey players who make more than most women cyclists. But they need the extra to pay their dentists. -- tanx, Howard Abandon the Creeping Meatball! remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok? |
Shelly Olds...bike stolen, bike found, but still a gerbil
"Ryan Cousineau" wrote in message ]... Bad plan. Almost all of the "gold" medals from 1920 onwards have been gilt silver. http://www.hesge.ch/heg/vous_etes/do...hnyder_annexe1 Can someone confirm that the Albertville, Lillehammer, and Atlanta medals were substantially gold? As for women's cycling, it just doesn't pay well. There are AAA hockey players who make more than most women cyclists. -- Ryan Cousineau Gilt, well at least some had gold edges, or something similar from other accounts. Still pathetic. Olympic champions should have real gold medals, or least solid gold plated, cheapskates. They might as well use medals from crackerjack boxes. Olympic and World Championship gold, should be gold plated. If Silver is silver, Gold should be Gold. It's a fraud on the sport, public and the athletes. Women's cycling has never paid well. They use it as a springboard for their careers here, and Europe even more so as hometown heroes. Nicolas |
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