Ronnie O'Sullivan counters Wiggo's suggestion that Victoria Pendleton is "a bit of a milkshake"

I've previously been informed that milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard, and that Daniel Day-Lewis got rich by drinking other people's. Now it seems they also win prizes for riding bicycles. Is there anything they can't do?

I regularly shop at Iceland. Their Milkshake consists of god know what. Probably liquid polymer. That leaves it something to be desired..

If it helped Vicky achieve more then that's fine, it's far better than what some other cyclists use to improve their performance....... we're not robots,  we're humans. Roy Keane was my hero......

... and quoting Roy Keane as the font of all mental well being...? It's easy to pretend post results but in rosy retirement Wiggin's is forgetting just how mentally fragile he was between 2010 and 2012.

I agree with Ronnie, it's funny Wiggins having a pop at needing a psychologist when he admits in his book he nearly went home from the 2012 TdF in a sulk because Froome was better than him. Maybe he would have needed to focus more on the mental side of things if he didn't have the confidence of knowing he was full of steroids and racing against guys who weren't.

If Pendleton is a milkshake does that make Wiggo half a bitter shandy?

Everyone is different. If it works for you, great. If it doesn't, so what? 

Human beings are inherrantly faulty, have self doubts and when under pressure default to bad habits/processes/our 'natural' instinct or way of thinking. it takes years of being in certain environments to change to become different but can all come undone in a fleeting moment. You see it in everyday situations but also in sport where top athletes have meltdowns sometimes of epic proportions.
Sports psychologists work with individuals (mostly) not just to get them thinking about how they can achieve x but to explore what might hold them back at crucial moments, be able to address those self doubts and potential underlying problems and plenty more besides.
Rugby union and athletics are quite goid at using PS, you set mini goals for smaller periods of time/effort and try to attain those goals resetting after each.
What has gone has gone, you can't change that but you can change what you achieve in the next mini target/goal so you reset, reset ypur gocus on your targets and act out what you know you can do, often visualising the actions.
In rugby it can be make x tackles/hit ups in x minutes focusing on completion andwhat your tasks/job Iis within the team.
In such a physically demanding sport that in league particularly were play is much more continuous (than union) it's difficult to keep that focus/goal resetting, that's why it's not just ever (or shouldn't be) a one off thing. Like training your skill/improving athletic ability, training your mind to deal with x scenario as near to 'robotic' fashion doesn't happen overnight.
Coaches can be particularly sceptical, in rugby league that I know of no-one uses them (PS) in the Northern Hemisphere at least yet when you wqtch how players dismantle in matches and make mistakes you'd associate with schoolkids that's not just physical fatigue but mental fatigue/lack of mental strength and not coping with the pressure.
Some people have an innate ability to deal with these things themselves but they are very few and far between, often these people come from hard or dysfunctional backgrounds where they had to cope with a lot of shit as kids.

Meh; what does Ronnie Pickering think? 

where there's no sense, there's no feeling

Steve Peters is a Psychiatrist. He may have employed psychological theories and techniques as some of the basis of his approach, but he's a paid up member of the royal college of Psychiatrists.