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Missy Giove visited my home town today....

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stiksandstones

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MMike said:
Just goes to show what happens when you peak in life a 27....or whatever, and have no marketable skill to fall back on....
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My wife 'peaked' at 27 in her MTB career, had no real life 'skills', no college degree. Quit racing bikes at 32, owns her own multi-million dollar business-that does not involve selling pot or anything illegal.
 
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batts65 said:
They also had $1 million in cash on them when they were caught (never keep the product and the cash in the same place) I know mtb was much more lucrative in the '90's than it is now, but that is not Missy's $$$$, if she is willing to talk, she may walk. (reduced sentence)
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Million in cash...wow.

Missy made well over that in her career, but ya, doubt shes rolling around town with her life savings in her truck.
As nutballs as missy is, there probably is not a person out there that has a bigger heart and was always the one telling us all to not stray into bad sh1t like this. I am so blown away, truly.

I don't see Missy giving up on anyone in this, even the shady people that got her involved....gonna be rough.
 
John P.

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It was pretty obvious though that Leigh had a good head on her shoulders - she always presented herself in an articulate and thoughtful manner; the consummate 'pro'. Missy's most apparent trait was being 'gnar' 24/7. Both were entertaining to watch on the bikes, but one obviously transfers to post-bike life a little better than the other.
 
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John P. said:
It was pretty obvious though that Leigh had a good head on her shoulders - she always presented herself in an articulate and thoughtful manner; the consummate 'pro'. Missy's most apparent trait was being 'gnar' 24/7. Both were entertaining to watch on the bikes, but one obviously transfers to post-bike life a little better than the other.
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Thanks for the respect to the mrs'

As for Missy, her act made her what she is, she was definitely different away from the 'scene' (not entirely different, but not so media whorish and freakish). I would more say this is testament to all the hard blows to the head that may have completely ruined the rational thinking part on the brain. I also know when her dad died that hit her tremendously hard and may have sent her into a personal spiral. I had not talked to her in over a year, but she was going through some sh1t.
 
Jim Mac

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"Giove and Canori were in the custody of U.S. Marshals pending detention hearings Thursday afternoon in Albany."

Hey Batts, now she's in MY hometown!

I'm headin' down there tonight with a big sign that says "FREE MISSY THE MISSILE!"

(too bad all my DEA connections moved to counterterrorism post 9/11!)
 
stiksandstones

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Isn't there a lawyer-monkey or DEA-monkey in here?

I am really curious as to how serious this is? I mean, it says min of 4 yrs and 2 million dollar fine IF convicted, what has to happen to get a conviction, etc....

In other words, if she is walking free next week, cleared of all charges, is that impossible?

(Ya, I know NOTHING about law, drugs)
 
S.K.C.

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Wow.

She is totally boned. It sucks that she made the kinds of decisions that led to this. I remember seeing her on "Conan" a while back doing tricks on her 4X bike in the studio. Never met her, but seems like a nice girl.

stiksandstones said:
My wife 'peaked' at 27 in her MTB career, had no real life 'skills', no college degree. Quit racing bikes at 32, owns her own multi-million dollar business-that does not involve selling pot or anything illegal.
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Right on Stik!
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sorry to hear this... hope it works out for Missy one way or the other.
 
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and thats why you use illegals to run you drugs or crack heads. 5grand out of a million to a illegal or a crack head is a lot of money you wont miss 5g's. well i hope for the best shell get time but if she turns she be out in under 2 years.
 
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I haven't talked to Missy in a few months so I can't say what's going on. Therefore, I am holding off on judging until the story comes out.

She seemed to be at a good point in her life and happy last time I talked to her. Many of you guys probably have hung out with her in the last few years at East Coast races and you know that she isn't some sort of thug. She would help anyone out if she could.

A lot of the opinions on her posted her seem to be way off base. Just for reference she was straight as an arrow while racing. I really wish I could post more.

JohnP: you should head down there and hook her up with some representation until she can hire an attorney.
 
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ChrisKring said:
I haven't talked to Missy in a few months so I can't say what's going on. Therefore, I am holding off on judging until the story comes out.

She seemed to be at a good point in her life and happy last time I talked to her. Many of you guys probably have hung out with her in the last few years at East Coast races and you know that she isn't some sort of thug. She would help anyone out if she could.

A lot of the opinions on her posted her seem to be way off base. Just for reference she was straight as an arrow while racing. I really wish I could post more.

JohnP: you should head down there and hook her up with some representation until she can hire an attorney.
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I was reading a lot of peoples twitter updates and a lot of them saying things like "I am not surprised" or "I didnt even have to guess when I heard a MTBer was arrested for drug trafficking"...>>>WTF? There was probably no one cleaner than Missy.

At any rate, my site www.freemissy.com should be live by days end, shirts being made asap, order online, etc....
 
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
ChrisKring said:
I haven't talked to Missy in a few months so I can't say what's going on. Therefore, I am holding off on judging until the story comes out.

She seemed to be at a good point in her life and happy last time I talked to her. Many of you guys probably have hung out with her in the last few years at East Coast races and you know that she isn't some sort of thug. She would help anyone out if she could.

A lot of the opinions on her posted her seem to be way off base. Just for reference she was straight as an arrow while racing. I really wish I could post more.

JohnP: you should head down there and hook her up with some representation until she can hire an attorney.
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Wise words, Chris. Seems like a public person cannot make any kind of mistakes. If anything happens, the hell breaks loose upon them. I don't know Missy any better than most of those who dare to thrash her now. I live in Argentina, and have learned of her skills on and off the bikes just via the Internet (as most of us do, I believe). Besides anything she could do, I will always remember her for being a wonderful athlete, and a non-conformist, sparkling lady...
 
John P.

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ChrisKring said:
JohnP: you should head down there and hook her up with some representation until she can hire an attorney.
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Man, if I had practiced law in the last 8 years, I might consider it!

Seriously though, I feel bad for a good person facing some tough penalties, but at the same time, she knew what she was doing was against the law. Just a bummer all the way around.
 
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She's a pro athlete so she'll be fine...right? NFL player, Stallworth, just got 30 days for killing someone while driving drunk, so how bad could the charges be for a little weed?
 
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stiksandstones said:
I was reading a lot of peoples twitter updates and a lot of them saying things like "I am not surprised" or "I didnt even have to guess when I heard a MTBer was arrested for drug trafficking"...>>>WTF? There was probably no one cleaner than Missy.

At any rate, my site www.freemissy.com should be live by days end, shirts being made asap, order online, etc....
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Would you do this for your neighborhood drug dealer as well?

Seriously, I have huge respect for her and her accomplishments in racing. But now she has decided to sell drugs! Would you guys all be so cool about it if the kids she is selling dope to were yours?

And besides that, she is giving the sport a bad reputation. Cyclist = drug user/dealer is the picture that the general public gets. :( Now try to convince parents that it is good to let their kids get into mountainbiking..... :suicide2:
 
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ChrisKring said:
I haven't talked to Missy in a few months so I can't say what's going on. Therefore, I am holding off on judging until the story comes out.

She seemed to be at a good point in her life and happy last time I talked to her. Many of you guys probably have hung out with her in the last few years at East Coast races and you know that she isn't some sort of thug. She would help anyone out if she could.

A lot of the opinions on her posted her seem to be way off base. Just for reference she was straight as an arrow while racing. I really wish I could post more.

JohnP: you should head down there and hook her up with some representation until she can hire an attorney.
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Agreed. I never knew her personally at all but met her at Snowshoe several times and she was nothing close to a "thug." Always super nice to everyone there and was super supportive of her fellow racers. I saw her numerous times giving other female racers tips, lines, etc before the race. Sucks that this happened and I'm sure she would be the first to admit that she screwed up in a bad way.
 
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in todays pique newsmagazine here in whistler.......the "War on drugs" has been, and will continue to be, a complete and utter failure....what a waste of money and resources....

http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/pique/index.php?cat=C_Columns&content=Maxed+out+1625
Maxed out
I fought the war
By G. D. Maxwell

"It was twenty years ago today,

Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play."

When the Beatles sang those first words on the eponymous track of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, nothing in my life had happened twenty years ago. But the driving chords, stabbing guitar and words were a hook that lodged in my - and I suspect almost everyone else's - head, an association that probably won't end until I end or dementia robs me of all but my earliest memories.

It was quite a few years later that I first began a sentence with that phrase. "It was twenty years ago..." The sound of those words, and the accompanying soundtrack spooling instantaneously through my head, froze me in my tracks and I dropped the sentence into the well of unfinished thoughts. "OMG, I didn't just say that, did I?" It shocked me that I was about to relate a tale of something or other that had happened, something I personally remembered experiencing, two decades earlier. It was an even greater shock to realize that whatever it was seemed so crystal clear and fresh in my memory.

It wasn't any easier the second time the words tumbled out, or the third or the fourth. But in time it became less traumatic. The music never stopped but the thoughts and stories continued. A pang of déjà vu tied me in a knot the first time I substituted 30 years for 20 as the milepost marking the sentence, but by then I'd grown accustomed to, if not comfortable with, the variant of relativity theories that makes time seem to accelerate the older we get, compressing ancient experiences into fresh memories and stupefying those around us who wonder why we're telling them tales older than they are.

The shock washed over me anew last month when I was reminded the various governments I've lived under for most of my life have been at war with me for, gulp, 40 years! Yes, boys and girls, it was 40 years ago - cue music - this July that Richard Nixon, the man we all thought had a lock on the Worst President Ever award until George Bush the Younger came along, declared war on drugs. Notwithstanding last month's announcement by the Office of National Drug Control Policy that the Obama administration will no longer use the term, the war continues to rage.

While I've tried to maintain a status of conscientious objector in the war on drugs, at least one side considers me an enemy combatant and would, if they could, spirit me away to any one of the many Gitmos scattered like so many high-security M&Ms across every community in North America. A shocking number of those prisons have been built solely to house, at great expense to the state and at even greater expense to the individuals, people who would rather unwind after a long day in the corporate trenches with a puff rather than with a socially-approved, government-taxed drink.

Oh, the governments pitched in the fevered battle never said they were squandering the money to incarcerate potheads, but during the last three of those four decades, the U.S. prison population serving time for drug crimes ballooned from around 41,000 to half a million. The stats for the first decade are lost to history because until war was declared, no one thought it significant enough to track.

Canadian tokers can feel slightly, but only slightly, safer pursuing their pleasure on this side of the border. While most Canuck cops don't pursue potheads with the same singlemindedness the assorted Sheriff Andys to the south do, Canadian prison populations are still swollen with people whose plan to live a perfectly normal, if somewhat stoned life, has been forever shattered by one of the stormtroopers from the other side of the trenches.

In an ironic way, Nixon's - and his successors' - War on Drugs eerily foreshadowed the precipitous decline in the U.S.' overall success rate in waging real wars against real(sic) foes. Let's see, since declaring war on drugs, the only real fighting war the U.S. has managed to "win" has been... Granada? Ah yes, the war to ensure the unfettered right of middle-class kids, with less than impressive academic records, to attend second-rate medical schools in tropical settings. It was a stirring sight, although no really good war songs managed to be written about it.

But like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on Terror, the War on Drugs has been one long, inextricable quagmire, draining spirit, economic resources and vitality that could have been put to much better uses had anyone combined half a brain with political will.

Well into the 1960s, stories would emerge occasionally about some poor sap, some ancient Japanese soldier being discovered on a remote island in the South Pacific who was still fighting World War II. He'd be dressed in rags, emaciated, terminally perplexed and suspended in utter shock and disbelief when tourists in tacky Hawaiian shirts would try to explain to him, (a) the war was over and, well, had been for several decades, (b) they didn't know why no one had told him and, (c) oh yeah, you lost. With failing eyesight, compromised health and a shiny, well-oiled rifle, the confused samurai would descend into catatonia trying to decided whether these gaily-dressed people were in fact enemy soldiers in unusual camo or civilians bearing bad news.

North American governments at all levels are not far removed from those addled, ancient warriors. They see the evidence, they compile the statistics, they witness the social cost but they just can't believe the overwhelming message: THE WAR'S OVER - DRUGS WON!

Okay, maybe that message is too blunt. Drugs didn't win the war. Drugs never actually engaged in warfare. Drugs just are. And there will always be people who want to use them. Some will do so and get on with life. Some will meet a bad end. But it takes a certain kind of Einstein to ignore Einstein's admonition about fools who keep doing the same thing and expecting the outcome to be different. Governments have been fighting the same war with the same weapons and achieving the same results - failure - for four decades now. Isn't it about time to try something else? Something that doesn't waste enormous amounts of money that could be put to better uses? Something that doesn't turn potentially productive people into criminals? Something that doesn't make building and staffing prisons a growth industry?

Of course it is. And, of course, they won't. Maybe in another 40 years.

The folly of playing out this endless end game is slowly, glacially, becoming more clear to more people. We can't keep drugs out of maximum security prisons. How in the world are we going to suppress them in open, democratic societies?

But until someone wakes up all the old soldiers, the war continues.
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