Victoria Pendleton: corrosive culture forced me out of cycling

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old_windbag wrote:
reohn2 wrote:I wouldn't like to do a three week tour on a horse :shock:


Especially a carpenters horse :) ....


No definitely knot,that'd go against the grain :shock:
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old_windbag wrote:
reohn2 wrote:I wouldn't like to do a three week tour on a horse :shock:


Especially a carpenters horse :) .

Trail Beater wrote:I imagine Jess will have a ghost writer lined up already,with "warts 'n' all revelations about how Victoria Pendleton stole her boyfriend once,she likes green and how her coach had a funny accent.


Theres a lot of this book writing going on. I find it surprising how so many celebrities have so many stories to fill 500+ pages. Every interview they have leads up to "oh and you've recently written a book" :roll: . Pain in the rear end.


"Yeah,my Publisher says it's a great example of Collaborative Fiction"
"Or sumfing"
"Thanks Jess,speak to you later"
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reohn2 wrote:No definitely knot,that'd go against the grain :shock:


A couple of coats of jess varnish and it'll look well smart.
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old_windbag wrote:
reohn2 wrote:No definitely knot,that'd go against the grain :shock:


A couple of coats of jess varnish and it'll look well smart.


That's yacht funny
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reohn2 wrote:That's yacht funny


I wooden say that, it made me larch.

The last of the varnish inspired wood puns.......... I can't take any more :D .
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old_windbag wrote:
reohn2 wrote:That's yacht funny


I wooden say that, it made me larch.

The last of the varnish inspired wood puns.......... I can't take any more :D .


Are you saying we should gloss over this issue ?
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I'm horse with laughter,it's a galloping success,though some may say nay.
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Someone has started a Shane Sutton: Go and have a baby thread in womens cycling. Should be interesting to see if it starts a catfight like podium girls :shock: .
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old_windbag wrote:Someone has started a Shane Sutton: Go and have a baby thread in womens cycling. Should be interesting to see if it starts a catfight like podium girls :shock: .


Oh yes,I might make a wee visit :lol:
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All the british women cyclists are damned attractive, I love them all, especially VP. And I don't suppose I'd have got on with Sutton - I'm too lazy...
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VP is going to Rio as a reporter for the Daily Torygraph.

There was a piece pushing this over the weekend in either the Daily or Sunday T and she is quoted as aspiring to a role in coaching. (My words - I don't feel inclined to dig it out of the bin to get it verbatim.)
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Hi,
Vicky needs to make her OWN mind up what she wants to do.............for a change.
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Victoria (evidently she doesn't answer to Vicky, or at least her fellow commentator at the Olympic Velodrome called her 'Victoria' without exception, and so does everyone else) in converstation with Anna Mears on Radio 5 Live just now - 11.00 pm, 19 August. You can listen again later on i-player. They actually sound like the best of pals, especially considering the needle there was between them, which is nice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07nnckn

I thought she did a really good job with the Olympics commentary - very slick, concise, conscientious and professional. She'll be getting handsomely paid for it, of course, but she did the best she could to earn her money. She might be temperamental and ever-so-slightly eccentric, but she's bright.
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Hi,
I always hated being called Larry when I was a lad :mrgreen:
But I am too old to worry anymore.

Victoria needs to sort her life out before she copies some of the other ex athletes who self destruct, I think she already has...............sorted that is.

Mears likes eating the competition for breakfast, that's why she survived so long.
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NATURAL ANKLING wrote:Hi,
I always hated being called Larry when I was a lad :mrgreen:
But I am too old to worry anymore.

Victoria needs to sort her life out before she copies some of the other ex athletes who self destruct, I think she already has...............sorted that is.

Mears likes eating the competition for breakfast, that's why she survived so long.

Wasn't getting at you for calling her Vicky - that's what I would have called her - but we'd probably have got a slap in the face for it! :lol:

Just finished listening to the discussion on 5 Live. She and Anna Mears really are like the best of friends - just goes to show that you can't believe what you read (but we knew that already - didn't we? :wink: ).

Didn't know this, but it turns out Victoria is a twin - she has a twin brother. Absolutely no offence whatsoever to twins - one of my heroes is a twin - but it kind of explains a lot. Twins are different. Not better or worse, necessarily, just different. At least, that's my experience.
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