John tomac
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Missy Giove
MISSY AND FRIENDS
One of mountain bike racing’s superstars and a cultural icon, Missy Giove is the all-time leader in NORBA downhill wins with 14, and is fourth on the list of World Cup medals with 11. Her additional accomplishments include three NORBA downhill overall crowns, two World Cup overalls, and the 1994 Downhill World Championship. Missy won an X Games Gold in Dual Slalom in 2000.
Before she took up cycling, Missy Giove was a nationally ranked downhill skier. She found her love for climbing and descending through skiing—her first season of ski racing she couldn’t afford a lift ticket so she climbed the hills. When she borrowed a mountain bike one summer, she fell in love with the sport. She entered her first mountain bike race that summer, won it and was spotted as a major talent.
Missy’s fearless style and personality brought a tremendous amount of attention to the sport of mountain biking. Bold, colorful and original, Missy was a great interview in print and on screen. She made memorable appearances on mainstream TV shows such as Jon
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As a new piece to my blog I'd thought about delving into our past and finding out what has happened to bike stars from yester-year. The years when Mountain Biking started coming of age and the good old Grundig World Cups. There have been many champions to the sport of both downhill and XC but there have been some that stood out more than others and so I'll be delving as deep as I dare and finding out what really happened to them after racing.
Missy Giove
Melissa "Missy" Giove (born 1972) is a former professional downhill mountain biker. Also know as the Missile , Giove was one of mountain-bike racing's first mainstream female superstars with an impressive reseme of achievements as well as her in your face, full on attitude that lit up the womens downhill scene.
Career
She is the American all-time leader in NORBA downhill wins with 14, and is second on the World Cup list with 11. Giove's other accomplishments include three overall NORBA downhill crowns, two World Cup overalls, and the 1994 world championship title. Prior to cycling, Mi
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Legends never die is what they say. And as the old saying goes, those written off as dead live even longer. But whatever they say, both of these proved true as Missy Giove, the femme fatale of the international downhill scene, rose from the ashes to race in Windham, NY at the sixth round of the UCI Downhill World Cup 2015. Hell yeah!
Who doesn’t know Missy? Perhaps the younger generation, those who haven’t spent the past two and a half decades following mountain biking at its most radical, devouring the international craziness of downhill. World Cup DH pushes riding to the absolute limit; it’s against the clock and takes no prisoners. No technical singletracks, it’s the incarnation of the worst you can imagine, with tracks that would strike so many of us as completely unrideable or result in a near-death experience should we try.
Back in at peak of Missy’s riding, downhill bikes were nowhere near as technologically advanced as they are today; her fame came from the days when mountain bikes and downhilling were still learning the ropes. Rudimentary suspension, often overwhelm
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