Roche & Kelly:Where are they now?

run_Forrest_run

Was chatting to a friend today and somehow cycling came up (dunno how!). We chatted about the likes of Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly in their heyday! We then wondered what are they up to these days??

Does anyone have any idea?

crashoveroid

Kelly is working for Eurosport and has a team called murphy and Gunn.

Roche Has Trainning camp in spain which he runs and does work for eurosport from time to time

Quigs Snr

Kelly is still on the bike. Does the wicklow 200 every year and a bunch of other charity events for the blazing saddles. Still flying on the bike too, turns up regularly at the worldwide cycles league races in Clonmel and even the Comeragh CC league races in Waterford during the summer and trains with the carrick/clonmel boys throughout the winter when he gets the time.

Still stick thin and very, very fit. Doing well for himself too, owns a lot of land around the area, has his leisure centre in Carrick and other ventures like the academy in Belgium and the Sean Kelly / Murphy Gunn pro team as well as a ton of other things such as the eurosport gig.

Nice bloke too. Always happy to pose for a picture with you and has no problem handing out a bit of advice. Still gets a kick out of handing you your ass though, not in out and out sprints, although no doubt he could do it if he wanted, more from being clever, i.e. taking a risky line through a bend on a descent and taking 20 bike lengths out of you, or shifting to a different gear at a perfect moment on a climb to leave you gasping for air whilst he soft pedals up the road smirking to himself ! Still got it ! Last time I saw him think he was riding a specialised bike, probably because they sponsor his team, have seen him on what looked like a titanium merlin out on the roads quite a bit too.

cyclopath2001

Stehpen famously left Ireland with his family after infamously dissing the country during a TV interview during the TDF presentation in Dublin.

His son Nicholas rides for CA and is often found in the 'business-end' of the peloton. He's been selected to ride the Giro, 20 years after Stephen won it.

run_Forrest_run

excellent! now I know. Thanks folks. I saw Sean Kelly presenting some show on TV a few weeks ago, he may be a brilliant cyclist but he won't make much of a living as a TV presenter I can tell U! He was awful..show was interesting though.

el tel

Further to cyclopath2001's post below, Stephen Roche notoriously ranted about the state of Ireland, it having drug dealers on every corner and being no place to raise a family and hence him living abroad.

Drugs indeed...;)

Raam

there was a full page interview with Kelly in one of the papers a few weeks ago. I think it was the Irish Times on Saturday. Interesting read. The author went out for a cycle with him and some other lad. Kelly had a nice looking Specialized bike. S-works Tarmac SL or something like that. Man, I'd love one of those

tampopo

Ahh, Sean Kelly,
good to hear he's doing very well. I must say, he's my all time favourite Irish sportsman...

yeah, he is a bit unintelligible, but he knows his business. Several months ago, on the bbc sports/cycling message board the contributors were slagging him but in fairness, he had to work with that idiot David Duffield during the TdF and put up with his claptrap....

Mucco

run_Forrest_run wrote:

excellent! now I know. Thanks folks. I saw Sean Kelly presenting some show on TV a few weeks ago, he may be a brilliant cyclist but he won't make much of a living as a TV presenter I can tell U! He was awful..show was interesting though.

Kelly is highly respected by the denizens of the C+ forum as he has the ability/experience to read the race, and, in many cases, accurately predict the outcome. They do find his Irish accent a bit difficult to penetrate though.....

Chips Lovell

Every time I hear David Duffield I think of Alan Partridge.

Shaymoboy

I read that recent article about Kelly in the Irish times. He still has got that drive.

Anytime I see Roche interviewed here, he comes across as if he was shafted by Irealnd which is not the case

S