This is a sad day

[huw williams]

Missy was a really good friend back in my world cup MTB days - I used to stay with her parents for the Mount Snow NORBA and World Cup races in Vermont. She always lived on the edge and loved being in the spotlight. When she stopped racing and the spotlight was switched off... well you can guess the rest...

Ex-mountain bike champ Missy Giove hit with drug charges

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former mountain biking world champion Melissa "Missy" Giove was ordered held on $250,000 bail Thursday after federal authorities said they seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana from a truck she was driving in upstate New York.
Giove, 37, and Eric Canori, 30, of Wilton were charged Tuesday with conspiring to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
Nearly 400 pounds of pot were seized from the truck and from Canori's home outside Saratoga Springs, 25 miles north of Albany, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
Canori was ordered held on $500,000 bail at the detention hearing Thursday. Giove and Canori were also ordered to surrender their passports, attend all court appearances and notify authorities of any changes in phone number or address should they post bail. Judge David Homer also imposed travel restrictions on both.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Belliss had asked for no bail, saying Giove and Canori are flight risks, but Homer cited the pair's lack of criminal history and family and business ties to their communities.
Authorities learned of Giove and Canori's plans last weekend when Illinois State Police pulled over a woman driving a truck and trailer loaded with about 220 pounds of marijuana, DEA spokeswoman Erin Mulvey said. Authorities completed the delivery to the Albany area, where Mulvey said Giove picked up the vehicle and trailer.
Giove is accused of then driving north and following Canori to his home, where some of the trailer's contents were unloaded.
Giove was later arrested at nearby Saratoga Lake, authorities said. A search of Canori's home turned up more than 150 pounds of pot and more than $1 million in cash stashed in a closet and the basement, the DEA said.
In court Thursday, public defender Tim Austin said the drugs and money were planted in Giove's truck, possibly by police.
Giove, nicknamed "The Missile," was the downhill world champion in 1994 and won World Cup season titles in '97 and '98, then captured national titles from 1999-2001. One of the sport's first mainstream female stars, she retired from downhill racing in 2003.

[Dombo]

There may of course be a perfectly innocent explanation.

[carl f]

AS the article sais..... holy crap!!

[Dombo]

She should certainly get a better lawyer.
The "police planted the drugs and the money" defence is right up there with the "dog ate my homework" efforts we expect from our own beloved Members of Parliament. I hope she likes wearing orange.
Let's assume that New York's finest do indeed keep large quantities of drugs and cash for the purposes of evidence enhancement. There must be many people on their radar more deserving of their efforts than an ex-mountain bike championess.

[adrian]

Nice bunch of people posting comments on that site. Democracy at its best!

[Dombo]

[quote="Dombo"]There may of course be a perfectly innocent explanation.

[adrian]

A possible 40 years a la sombra for something that was going to net her just $30,000. Sheeeesh.

[huw williams]

Don't believe everything you read in the press guys - seems like she's entered into a plea-bargain and should only get around 5 years - less with good behaviour (which knowing Missy is going to be something of a challenge)

[Marcus]

[quote="huw williams"]Don't believe everything you read in the press guys - seems like she's entered into a plea-bargain and should only get around 5 years - less with good behaviour (which knowing Missy is going to be something of a challenge)

[quote="Marcus"][quote="huw williams"]Don't believe everything you read in the press guys - seems like she's entered into a plea-bargain and should only get around 5 years - less with good behaviour (which knowing Missy is going to be something of a challenge)

[huw williams]

Knowing Missy, it's everyone else in prison I'd be worried about

[Dombo]

Having just watched "Cool Hand Luke", she should make the transition to road work on a chain gang quite easily

[Dombo]

[quote="Sean Hogan"]This is such a non story.

[Dombo]

Marco?

[quote="Sean Hogan"][quote="Dombo"][quote="Sean Hogan"]This is such a non story.