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mmmmm........i just don't get it personally 🙄

Can't wait - it's on Mrs O's alarm!

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Glad to see the Daily Fail upholding moral standards there

Cavendish manages to look a bit of a pillock in that shampoo ad, as does Chris Hoy in his cereal one.

Pendleton otoh looks like a proper model in the one she did. I can't actually remember what it was an ad for.. guess I was not concentrating on the product.

Ultimately it's got to raise the profile of cycling, hasn't it?

she has a rubbish cycling tan

Ahhhhh

What a Birthday Present for me! (tis my Birthday tomorrow you know...)

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I recon thats been stretched a bit in photoshop...

the standard-issue bikinis all beach volleyball players wear as standard.

Nice writing there.

Worth a bump 😉

Worth a bump

I would....... 😆

bloke filter on; she's an interesting character as all reports suggest she's psychologically quite fragile and insecure, and was one of the racers to benefit the most from sports psychologists with all her improvements being in her head.

bloke filter off; personally think Lizzie A is prettier and Jess Varnish has a great smile.

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Is Jess Varnish a real name?

Bonny anyway!

[i]bloke filter off; personally think Lizzie A is prettier and Jess Varnish has a great smile.[/i]

Er, but the documentary is about Victoria Pendleton, so... so what does that have to do with anything?

Is Jess Varnish a real name?

sure is, she lives about 2 miles from me and i've been riding with her dad (he's flipping good on a bike too)

Mmmmmmmm, I love Vicky P.

ahhhh little lizzie - she said hello to me at the nationals last year, the wife just looked at me with a glare of 1000 daggers.

I did instigate our brief hello conversation I must add.

She's a darling, but her dad is a bit me me me get over yourself your daughters made it you didn't, build a bridge and all that.

pender's tattoo *voms*

Nowt like doing it the hard way.

Great programme this - she comes across really well in it.

Shane Sutton's an interesting character as well. Tells it like it is. All heart but gets the results!

She comes across well, her Dad needs to get real he never was and never will be, he has been given a stage to say how proud he is of his daughter and then goes on about how bloody wonderful he could have been..

Better docu than I expected.
She certainly is a hell of an athlete.

i wonder how much of Brailsford's mind was on the yellow jersey and sky

I don't understand what was so bad about her relationship that meant blokey had to be kicked out....

FFS, stop crying.

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Pies.

What a lovely person.

Pies, why the signature? We can tell it's you.

DezB, I was commenting on all the posts suggesting the only reason to watch was to perv, and that whilst she has the highest profile shes not the only photogenic female cyclist.

Interesting stuff, especially shown before the Olympics highlighting how fragile she is. Let's just say dad did come out of it well.

so, if she fails we/she can blame her bloke then? getting the excuses in early

it sounded like she was never doing it for herself, always doing it for somebody else, never looked happy when she won either

I knew she was psychologically 'fragile' but didn't realise why. It's a brutal place, top level sport, no room for sentimentality. They got rid of him because they didn't see how it could work, now they've brought him back because the only thing she lacked is that mental strength that having him around gives her. You wouldn't want to cross Shane Sutton would you.

Of course I want all our athletes to do well, but if I had to nominate one to get gold above all others it would be damn close between VP and Mo Farah.

[i] if she fails we/she can blame her [b]relationship with her[/b] bloke then?[/i]

FTFY 😉

Highlighted the fine line between belief and mental fragility in achiveing success.

Did anyone see last nights programme on the sprinters? Asafa Powell seems to be similar too.

Wow what a powerful doc that wad, very honest before Olympics although as said her Dad didn't come out of it well. Shane Sutton is one of the most honest up front bloke you can meet he used to be coach for Welsh Cycling when I was a kid, hence the ODP "boot camp" regimes too.

I always find it interesting to note that your hero's and heroin's can be humane rather than pedestal-lion by having the same or worse problems than you have.

Interesting personally that she display's the same mental frailties as me, and coincidentally I'm reading the booking written by her psychotherapist named on the program.

Olympics 2016 here I come. Oh, I'll be 44..... :-/

And now I want a road bike to race on the local track...

Surprisingly good little documentary, didn't know anything about her before, she seems nice but quite immature.. hope she does well at the Olympics.
Can't quite see why it was necessary for her other half to leave the team.. were they jealous or something 😕

can't quite see why it was necessary for her other half to leave the team

Because a boundary was set that said that relationships between coaches and athletes were absolutely uncrossable. Whether that is a boundary that should exist is not the question - it did, he crossed it, he got fired. It was only because it was so close to Beijing that he kept his job until the Olympics, but as soon as the job was done (the same day!) he effectively got fired.

So refreshing to watch that - complex character and sad that she (still) feels the need for others' recognition and approval after all she has achieved. But just shows we all have different drivers. Made all of us watching feel much more emotionally attached to her and wishing her all the best success for the perfect send off.

Go VP - bash Mears in the final 2-0!

Which book is that kryton?

That was a shining example of paying too much attention to the rule book and not the person.

Familiar story.

They couldn't even fully concede they handled the situation poorly.

Rules are rules, computer says no.

I was quite amazed to see how mentally weak she was. There again she got over it all and beat nearly everyone in her way, so maybe she isn't mentally weak, just emotional...

Interesting insight.

On her own she is mentally weaker. With her bloke back in the team, he provides enough of a mental crutch to overcome it. The real weakness is to not realise that and adapt to overcome, which thankfully they have now accepted.

It's more complex because this is the mental side of sport which is still the side that is least known - but if it was a technical aspect (eg: say they wanted her to use a specific gear ratio but then found that she went better with a different one) they'd have no problem adapting the set up to allow that.

At this top level there are fractions of hundredths of second between the top athletes. Whatever it takes (legally) is fair game in my book, and if that's gear ratios, skinsuits, favoured coaches or lucky underpants on Fridays - if it makes her half a wheel faster, then do it.