"suer" wrote in message
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Hands up who among the rest of us young girlies spent the rest of the
1984 season sleeping on mattresses-on-the-floor, or even straight on the
floor, in the hopes of raising our game to her level. Ha, I did.

Great story suer, thanks. Beryl was one of the all time women greats, and
it seems incredible that she had a serious debilitating illness when young
(polio?) but came back to beat everyone for a very long time indeed.

The story I love best was when she was doing a 24 hours time trial, and
passing one of her male rivals, reached into a pocket and offered him a
liquorice allsort! Rumour has it that he retired from the ride.