Missy Giove

Melissa 'The Missile' Giove (born in Manhattan, NY 1972) is an American professional downhill mountain biker. Throughout her career she won 14 NORBA downhill titles and 11 world cups. Giove's other accomplishments include three overall NORBA downhill crowns, two World Cup overalls, and the 1994 World Championship title.

Missy Giove

Medal record
Representing the  United States
Women's Mountain bike racing
World Championships
1994 Vail, Colorado USA Downhill (DH)
1993 Métabief, France Downhill (DH)
1996 Cairns, Australia Downhill (DH)
2002 Kaprun, Austria Downhill (DH)
World Cup
1996 Downhill (DH)
1997 Downhill (DH)
1998 Downhill (DH)
1999 Downhill (DH)
2000 Downhill (DH)
2001 Downhill (DH)
1993 Downhill (DH)
1994 Downhill (DH)

Career

Missy raced for Yeti Cycles, along with other racers: Myles Rockwell, Jimmy Deaton, John Tomac and Johnny O'Mara, managed by former owner of Yeti Cycles, John Parker, the Volvo-Cannondale USA cycling team.

Giove raced wearing the desiccated body of her deceased pet piranha, Gonzo, around her neck, which would become a marketing campaign for Cannondale.

2015, Giove qualified 17th at the World Cup Downhill race at Windham, New York +36.558 seconds off the pace of Rachael Atherton's 3:05.135.[1][2]

2016, Giove was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.[3]

2017, Giove was an honorary inductee into the Italian Hall of Fame.

1999, May. Giove, along with Amazon Inc. filed a lawsuit against Cannondale (AMAZON, INC. v. CANNONDALE CORP. DIRT CAMP, INC., Civil Action Nos. 99-cv-00571-EWN-PAC, 00-cv-02063-EWN-PAC (D. Colo. Mar. 10, 2006) and Dirt Camp, Inc. for a 1999 Cannondale Product Catolog and sought $2 million dollars in damages. During the summer and early fall of 1998, while Giove was still a member of the team, Cannondale designed, published, and distributed its 1999 products catalog. The catalog included several photographs of Giove. Subsequently, Giove and Team Sports Mountain Inc.(TMSI) failed to renegotiate a contract, and the TSMI/Amazon contract expired on December 31, 1998. Cannondale continued to distribute the 1999 catalog containing Giove's photographs after the TSMI/Amazon contract expired.[4]

2009, June. Giove was arrested in Wilton, New York on charges of conspiring to possess and distribute 384 pounds of marijuana found hidden in a car trailer during a routine traffic stop. The case netted over $12,515,738 assets seized in the conspiracy. [5][6][7][8]

2012, November. Giove, pleaded guilty in the case and was sentenced to 5 years on probation and 6 months under house arrest. [9]


References
  1. "Results Windham DH World Cup".
  2. "Missy Giove Qualifying Windham World Cup".
  3. "Marin MTB HOF".
  4. "Amazon v Cannondale".
  5. "Giove Released".
  6. "Giove Sentence Terminated".
  7. "You Tube, Vice Video, Red Cards, S1/E1,"Downhill Champion Drug Smuggler"".
  8. "Feds Share $89 million".
  9. "Former Queensbury man receives 30-month prison sentence in drug case".
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