40 years in prison, dont you only get 25 for murder!?

Not in the USA! They love a long sentance

If she had killed someone while driving , she would have only got a fine in the uk

Silly girl.

Gutted, an original star of the scene, from what I remember she didn't even drink. Really sad.

I'm looking at this picture and seeing a headline that say's drug pusher. Why am I not suprised? No sympathy here even if smoking weed isn't that bad the organized crime that surrounds it is-having no thought of the lives she's ruining by pushing drugs she's part of the problem not a symptom. I'm sure she had tons of opportunities with bike companies & sponsors to live a better life and not resort to this.

What a dope!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims

She was just doing her part to stimulate the economy!

Distributing a most precious plant, a plant that serves a 1000 different uses, all of them positive! and going to jail for it?

Missy's real mistake was she was taking business away from the CIA and mafia.

I had the chance to ride at the same time she started ( at a very different level but did one race in common and remember hose fighting with her while cleaning bicycles....), she brought a lot to the sport, to its image from just a few bike clunkers nostalgic going down mountains to front page of newspapers. I remember her style, etc, she was really the first one to differentiate herself from a bunch of cute - mostly Italian - downhillers ( Giovanna Bonazzi, etc... ) at a time where A.C. Chausson looked - and cycled - like a young bloke with long hair. Sport needs people like that, shame she could not handle it.... Good luck tough....

christ that's ridiculous. Fingers crossed Missy..

It's all downhill from here!

makes your choices and pay the price.

she knew what she was doing and the risks if she got caught.

no sympathy though it is a shame that she couldnt hold it together to be a ambassador for the sport like some of her contemporaries have become.

forgot to mention the minimum sentence for this offence is 5 yrs and the max is 40 with upto $2 million fine.

so all that can be said at the moment is she's going to get somewhere between 5-40.

not definetly 40 as this article seems to hint.

gutted missy was a real star......

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drugs are for mugs!

ach, massive distinction between le herbe and dopage!

Now scum like riccardo ricco should go to jail for life!

nice to see a change of angle regarding drugs in cycling. well done missy.

Seems a right shame that she's done something like that. I remember watching her on Eurosport 'back in the day'. Thought she'd still be involved in the sport at some level, not resorting to doing something like this. 350lb sounds a fair load!

I really cant see what she has done apart from being persecuted buy a oppressive government!!

What a stupid, STUPID "law". Make millions out of killing people with alcohol - fine. A measly few quids from dope and hung out to dry (so to speak). Just legalise the lot. Save '000s of lives in Mexico alone.

A Christmas wish that she gets the minimum. Still 5 years too bloody long.

And Arroyo', those comments say more about you than about Missy.

dave j

What a stupid, STUPID "law". Make millions out of killing people with alcohol - fine. A measly few quids from dope and hung out to dry (so to speak). Just legalise the lot. Save '000s of lives in Mexico alone.

They have a choice they could say no!!

"They have a choice they could say no!!"

Missy must have had a choice in this, but if you´re talking about the people that get pulled into the narcotrafico business, some people do it willingly, some not, saying "no" to a narco ends up with a spectacular death then being hung off a bridge or similar as a message to others.

The consumers aren´t saying no, by legal means or not, they get their gear, supply and demand in action.

Totally agree with your comment tuercas.

Once their in deep you cannot say no.

Totally out of proportion. Lock up child rapists, paedofiles and murderers. A bit of dope has never killed anyone.

Obviously didn't get enough of a buzz out of riding her bike. Because she couldn't have done it for the money.....$30,000 to deliver 350 lb of Dope.......oh well she knew the consquences, now time to pay the price.

The USA is one of the most vile and evil countrys in all of human history what do u expect them to do, be nice to people or repress them????

wow 30 grand was worth it?

"Totally out of proportion. Lock up child rapists, paedofiles and murderers. A bit of dope has never killed anyone."

You have not heard of drug impaired driving?... I have watch a victim of such die in front of me.