Sean Eadie

Sean Eadie

Sean Eadie as sprint world champion in 2002
To person
Full name	Sean Patrick Eadie
Date of birth	April 15, 1969
nation	Australia
discipline	train
End of career	2004
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2002 - sprint
Last updated: August 19, 2017

Sean Patrick Eadie (born April 15, 1969 in Sydney ) is a former Australian cyclist and current cycling coach.

Athletic career

Sean Eadie started cycling at the age of ten. In 1990 he became a professional after completing his training as a primary school teacher.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, Eadie won the bronze medal in the team sprint together with Gary Neiwand and Darryn Hill . Two years later, in 2002 , Eadie became world champion in the sprint . The following year he won the Commonwealth Games in a team sprint (with Ryan Bayley and Jobie Dajka ) . He was also several times Australian champion.

In 2004 Eadie took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , in the sprint he finished twelve and in the team sprint together with Ryan Bayley and Shane Kelly four.

Eadie was best known for having a beard, which is unusual for a cyclist. After winning the sprint world championship title in Copenhagen in 2002, he had his trademark shaved off by the French track bike star Arnaud Tournant in the interior of the cycling track.

Doping affair

Before the Olympic Games in Athens, Eadie had to answer to a committee of inquiry for allegedly taking growth hormones. In December 2003, a cleaning lady found vials of growth hormones in the room of 19-year-old cyclist Mark French in a building at the Australian Institute of Sport in Adelaide . "What has eventuated [...] is a tangle of blame, suspicion, suspensions, exonerations, finger-pointing, court appearances and then court appeals." ("This was followed by a jumble of accusations, suspicions, suspensions, exonerations, assignments of blame, Court dates and appeals. ")

French stated that racing drivers Sean Eadie, Shane Kelly , Graeme Brown , Brett Lancaster and Dajka injected these themselves in his room. Eadie had given him the first syringe with what he believed were acceptable vitamins. After a four-month investigation, French was the only one of the racing drivers to be punished with a two-year competition ban and banned for life from the Australian Olympic team for dealing in banned substances. In 2005, French was acquitted by the International Court of Sports (CAS) and his bans lifted.

During the investigation, it became public that in 1999 Sean Eadie had received a package containing peptides that had been confiscated by customs. Eadie had stated that he did not know who the package came from, and after checking his credit cards nothing could be proven. Eadie had stated that he suspected that an ex-girlfriend of his was behind the sending of these parcels and that she wanted to harm him.

Professional

Following his active career, Eadie worked as a cycling trainer. He works as a sprint trainer for the New South Wales Institute of Sport at the Dunc Gray Velodrome , as assistant to Bradley McGee (as of 2017). One of his protégés is the three-time world champion Kaarle McCulloch .

successes

1997

• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Danny Day and Shane Kelly )

2000

• Olympic Games - Team Sprint (with Darryn Hill and Gary Neiwand )

2001

• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Jobie Dajka and Shane Kelly )

2002

• World Champion - Sprint
• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Jobie Dajka and Ryan Bayley )
• World Cup in Sydney - Keirin, Sprint
• Commonwealth Games 2002 - Team Sprint (with Jobie Dajka and Ryan Bayley )

2004

• Oceania Champion - Sprint
• Australian champion - sprint

Web links

• Sean Eadie in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Sean Eadie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• cyclingnews.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sprint world champion Eadie separates from the beard. In: radsport-news.com. September 30, 2002. Retrieved August 19, 2017 . 
2. ^ Bob Stewart: Rethinking Drug Use in Sport. Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-135-11847-1 , p. 44 ( limited preview in Google book search).
3. ↑ Alexander Hofmann: "We should better touch our own nose first". In: FAZ.net . July 13, 2004, accessed August 19, 2017 . 
4. ^ French ban overturned on appeal. In: news.bbc.co.uk. July 12, 2005, accessed August 19, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Jacquelin Magnay: Bound for Athens: Eadie wins appeal. In: theage.com.au. July 20, 2004, accessed August 20, 2017 . 
6. ^ NSWIS - Cycling. In: nswis.com.au. Retrieved August 19, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Sadhbh O'Shea: Kaarle McCulloch Q&A: I want to make my Olympic dream come true. In: Cycling News. February 28, 2016, accessed August 19, 2017 .