Chris Newton To Retire....

all show no go
all show no go Posts: 542
edited August 2010 in Pro race
At the end of this year. Doesn't think he'll make the 2012 Olympic Team so he's going to take up a coaching role with the Academy.

Always one of the classiest track riders IMO and a former World Champ to boot.

He also seemed to have the longest back/spine i've ever seen on a cyclist!

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... coach.html
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Let's close our eyes and see what happens

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  • Mr Wookie Man
    Mr Wookie Man Posts: 43
    He's down to ride the Newport (Shropshire) Nocturne on Saturday 04th September, could be one of the last chances to see him ride.
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    "classy" as in pi$$ing in a team-mates bed out of spite?
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Monty Dog wrote:
    "classy" as in pi$$ing in a team-mates bed out of spite?

    HHHUUUUUURRRRR

    Put an outsider in with a load of lads in any situation and you'd get a bit of boorish behaviour I'm sure.

    As it stands, not just a good track rider but excellent road man too. Probably would have done well on the continent if the track opportunities hadn't arisen.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Monty Dog wrote:
    "classy" as in pi$$ing in a team-mates bed out of spite?

    Never heard about this?.....sounds 'interesting'...care to enlighten me?

    Fantastic cyclist though, seen him race both track and road, and he always looked very strong.
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    Tom BB wrote:
    Monty Dog wrote:
    "classy" as in pi$$ing in a team-mates bed out of spite?
    Never heard about this?.....sounds 'interesting'...care to enlighten me?
    It's in Obree's book. Newton pissed in Obree's bed at a World Cup track meet and generally bullied him after Obree dropped him on a climb at a GB squad training camp. This was a major thing for Obree as, when he was a child, he and his brother had been set on by a gang of older boys and were urinated on at knife point.
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    :( Gone down in my estimation......not that he'll be too bothered!

    Isn't Obree involved with BC in some capacity as a coach nowadays?
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    i keep mistaking him for ed miliband,mind i have never seen the both of them in the same roon together.
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Ex-roady.
    Born to be a BCF coach, if they can coach or not...
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    all show no go wrote:
    At the end of this year. Doesn't think he'll make the 2012 Olympic Team so he's going to take up a coaching role with the Academy.


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    He's not that good. That old gezzers nearly catching him up. :D
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

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