Fatima Whitbread was celebrated, and she was a man!!
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Christine Ohuruogu - what a legend
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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 advertising campaigns over the last two years? The advertisers are not interested in CO, because she looks like a bloke.
The broadsheet papers, too. They LOVE an excuse to put a picture of a scantily clad, pretty girl on the front page, just as much as the tabloids do. Just pick up a Times during Wimbledon fortnight. CO won gold yesterday, but received nothing like the coverage picture-wise that Ennis, or Hannah England would have done.
She wasn't though. Not really. Pretty much EVERYBODY prefered the smiley, media-freindly Tessa Sanderson, despite Whitbread being clearly the more talented athlete.
Rubbish. If we are discussing the public perception of her, it would be utterly irrational to continue to leave it unsaid.
FW appeared on Celebrity Bullseye - the defense rests, m'lud.
London Irish
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When did I say that you utter clown? Evidence points more to your history of WRONGNESS
Hillian1
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My brother once met Whitbread at a dinner in London and told me he would have quite happily slung one up her.
He never told me how pissed he was at the time.
I heard she failed the drug test because she couldn't fit her cock in the collecting bottle
Are you sure? Read the 3 comments that precede this one. See!
16 bit 44.1
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Ultimately he's become the most shamed "drug cheat" in the history of sport. Is he really a good example to use?
What a ****tard!
Hillian1
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He is if you're using him as an example on how to beat the testers.
***tonguepushedagainstbottomlipwhileslappingthebackoflefthandwithright***
Lokki 7
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When did I say that you utter clown? Evidence points more to your history of WRONGNESS
When did I say that you said that? 2-0
- Jan 3, 2012
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She's on the front page of the Guardian today - and the back page, if it comes to that.
There were small pictures on a few. Mostly they led with the cricket.
joeinbrighton
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Linford Christie failed a drugs test once, which Ohrururogu has never done, yet in the main I think people firstly recall Christie for his gold medal in the Barcelona Olympics (well those that don't recall a prominent part of his anatomy first in any event).
Regardless, I was cheering on Ohrururogu last night and it was a gutsy run. I thought she'd left herself too much to do but she never gave in and gave her absolute all dipping for the line, breaking the British record in the process. She now has 6 medals in major championships, including 3 golds which puts her up there in the top echelon in terms of the best female athletes these isles have ever produced. Whether that's enough in the eyes of some people is another matter, but I take my hat off to her achievement, not least because her medals have been won over several years with it looking like she had passed her peak only for her to find further inspiration to win again.
Regardless, I was cheering on Ohrururogu last night and it was a gutsy run. I thought she'd left herself too much to do but she never gave in and gave her absolute all dipping for the line, breaking the British record in the process. She now has 6 medals in major championships, including 3 golds which puts her up there in the top echelon in terms of the best female athletes these isles have ever produced. Whether that's enough in the eyes of some people is another matter, but I take my hat off to her achievement, not least because her medals have been won over several years with it looking like she had passed her peak only for her to find further inspiration to win again.
de la zouch
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Not very bright are you.
He could have justifiably 'had you' for calling him a prick.
But the moral high ground just slips away when you then act like a prick.
I never care what the wider viewing public think about our sports stars just the people who know what they are talking about within that particular sport.