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Robert Millar

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    Itziger
    Registered Users Posts: 4,016 ✭✭✭Itziger


    neris wrote: »
    See on cycling news Robert millar has had full sex change and will be working with itv on the tour as Phillips York

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/a-statement-from-cyclingnews-contributor-philippa-york/

    I had seen that a good few years ago but it was shrouded in mystery and whispers. Wish him, now her, good luck with the return to public life and a higher profile in cycling/tv.


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    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    I was not aware of the gender change. I wish Phillapa well in her new public life and look forward to her insight on ITV.


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    robyntmorton
    Registered Users Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    I'm always happy to see stories like this. It means there's hope for me yet. Not as an elite cyclist (that breakaway is long gone), but that it is possible to do well in life anyway.

    Chapeau to her!


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    manwithaplan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    Good to see her back in public and looking forward to hearing her contributions. Great name by the way!


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    Thud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Thud


    Itziger wrote: »
    I had seen that a good few years ago but it was shrouded in mystery and whispers. Wish him, now her, good luck with the return to public life and a higher profile in cycling/tv.


    Just finish Richard Moore's book on him a few weeks ago, he did kind of deny it back then, but probably for obvious reasons in a less accepting environment and was back on the bike after that rumor, reviewing bikes for a magazine and coaching the Scottish junior team I think.

    This explains a lot of why he was so aloof with the author, left his family and went off the radar a few years back.

    Best of luck to her, will be tuning in to watch.


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    diomed
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    Eddy Schepers and Robert Millar/Philippa York stuck by Stephen Roche in the 1987 Giro D'Italia and I remember both of them for that.

    Good luck Philippa.


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    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    Robert Millar was up there with Roche and Kelly when it came to cycling heroes for me when I got into cycling. Used to have a picture on the wall of him climbing Holme Moss in the Kellogg's KOM Jersey (Red K Polka Dots!).

    Delighted she's now free to be who she wants to be, and really hope it works out on ITV4, as have enjoyed the cycling news stuff in recent years.


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    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    They said on last nights rest day show that Philippa's first ITV contributions will be on Thursday's stage.


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    C-Shore
    Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭C-Shore


    Great to see it out in the open now, rather than the rumours and talk of it for years.


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