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Edna is well wide of the mark to suggest that female athletes are JUDGED by their looks. Obviously their looks are subject to more scrutiny and attention, which in cases is unreasonable. Its also true that their 'celebrity' and earning power through endorsements, etc is hugely warped by how...

That's very unfair Edna. The male athletes get judged on how fit their WAGS are.

To be honest, your arguments are not helping her cause. The manner of her victories (how she has SO much more left than everyone else over the last 50m) is one of the very things that does make (some) people suspiscious. That and the fact that her physique at times over her career, has looked...

There were small pictures on a few. Mostly they led with the cricket.

Rubbish. If we are discussing the public perception of her, it would be utterly irrational to continue to leave it unsaid.

She wasn't though. Not really. Pretty much EVERYBODY prefered the smiley, media-freindly Tessa Sanderson, despite Whitbread being clearly the more talented athlete.

There's every truth in it. The public loves Ennis, and its goes beyond her sporting achievements which are no greater than CO's. How much of that fanbase did she pick up, at least in part, by constant public exposure to airbrushed pictures of her pretty face and toned midriff, in many...

CO is never going to get any great weight of public / media love behind her. Partly because of the cloud cast by those missed tests, but more so simply because she is a munter. True story.