She's 42.

No, she's a 100% local product - unfortunately.

Shes from down grunta's way :roflmao:

Ah, that explains it then. :roflmao:

That would be Lucy Tyler-Sharman (sp?) Massive scary unit. :eek: Used to train/was partner of (?) Martin Vinnicombe I think.

Good to see she had excuses ready as to why she didn't win today...:rolleyes:

Yeah, that's her. From Wiki:

Lucy Tyler-Sharman
During 1998 the head of the drug unit of the UK Sport Council, Michelle Verrocken, accused the Australian track team of using an illegal growth hormone on the IOC's banned substances list, Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), and found in Colostrum tablets. Verrocken statement raised doubts on the legality of using Colostrum tablets saying: "We have to ask whether it is a scientific advance of sport or cheating."

Charlie Walsh had ordered the purchase and use of Colostrum for his squad, ostensibly to overcome the threat of illness. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games cyclist Lucy Tyler-Sharman is believed to have refused to take the drug which precipitated a heated argument with Charlie Walsh and her subsequent expulsion from the Australian Team and the games.

The Australian team doctor rebuffed the accusations saying "We would not get involved in administering anything that was dubious. Colostrum is a dairy product, not a drug. It is produced naturally at the moment of birth for babies to suckle before breast milk appears." This was supported by Brian Sando, an Australian medical official at the Games, who said: "Colostrum is high in IGF-1 (human growth hormones) but the simple fact is that when it is taken orally in tablet form, the IGF-1 is denatured in the stomach and cannot be absorbed into the body. The only way it can be absorbed is by injection. Colostrum in tablet form is nothing more than a training aid, as vitamins are, and it helps stave off infection." [3]

Lucy Tyler-Sharman claimed that she had been deliberately sabotaged by the team management by forcing her to change pedals just before the semi-final of the 3000m pursuit. She also implied a sickness just before the race may not have been coincidental. After her expulsion from the games, the first Australian athlete to be sent home from a Commonwealth Games, she said in a statement:

"My problems relate to ongoing troubles with my sport, track cycling and its officialdom."

yeah, and Gippsland is a farking big place. .She may have an Olympic gold medal, but shes also had a personality bypass IMO.

An old manager of mine let it slip once that he took her out when he was a young bloke. Of course the 'you rooted Kathy Watt' teasing the next time we were all at the pub went down a treat (even though he denied it)

They were married. Vinnicombe would have had to have been the beeotch - she had balls. She liked it both ways apparently. The joke always was that when Vinnicombe was found postive for steriods it was because he'd caught them off his missus.

Charlie Walsh, Kathy Watt, Lucy Tyler Sharman. They were all made for one another.

Thats enough foul slander and gossip I think for one evening. I'm only going to say nice things now.

:lol: How can you tell when your Mrs is on steroids?





While you're getting busy she grabs you, turns you over and slams you from behind with her...(rhymes with Delores) :D :lol:

I have no idea what you are talking about. My wife would be able to confirm.

:lol: :lol:

Still smokey down your way classic?

Nah. Smoke blew away about 1pm when the southwesterly change hit, though you could still see it to the North. Yesterday was worse. They reckoned on the idiot box that down our way it was close to being the highest level of pollutants measured in the atmosphere ever in Victoria. All I know is that my eyes stung when I went outside.

thanks

I'm prettty sure it was 2005, but could've been 2004

actually, don't worry, if you can't be bothered :)
I think my copy is sitting at a mate's joint

2004 or early 2005.

Hey JM, what band is that as your new avatar? My eyes aren't helping me out today...

Aerosmith

Not that I can't be bothered, but I only started buying Ride at the beginning of 2006.:)

So 'fraid I'm no use to you.:p

I have never heard of 'Ride' magazine :o

Thanks Exy. :)


Ride magazine is one of the best cycling mags available (IMO). Locally produced too. Get onto it. :)

+1 - it only comes out quarterly, BTW, but always full of good stuff.

Thanks gang I will check it out :)

Ride has the best pictures!! :)

Chicks on bikes wearing very little?:D

nah, bike p0rn :)