Christine Ohuruogu - what a legend

[keaton]

I'll raise you Keri-Anne Payne.

Is that the Open water swimmer? I'm not sure she's that well known.

Charlotte Edwards?

 

[Stat Brother]

Is that the Open water swimmer? I'm not sure she's that well known.

Charlotte Edwards?

Plastered all over the British Gas vans, looking hot.

I've just looked through the Sunday Times Sports section, for inspiration.

There are 68 Sportsmen visible (main photo inc background competitors) and 3 Sportswomen.

CO, naturally.
Raiya al Habsi, a history making Arab woman sailor.
Jessica Judd, a young athlete.

That's in 15 pages of broad sheet sport.

 

[Buzzer]

And therein lies the inequality of it all: Andy Murray is ugly as sin but makes every front page (even when he was losing finals). Nobody talks about his looks or bad hair. To be a popular sportswoman in the eyes of the British media, you need to be deemed fit by the writers. Even in 2013, female athletes are judged on their looks in a way that males rarely are.

Absolute bollocks. You were the one giving Craig Noone's girlfriend grief about being a gold-digger because she was going out with an ugly bloke.

 

[Questions]

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 close to unnatural.

The reason she is still strong over the last 50m is to do with pacing. She doesn,t win by a mile does she ?
She runs even 200m splits most of the time ,whilst in the major champs so many athletes go off to quick because of the occasion and that kills them.
As for her physique, well there are plenty like her on the circuit.

 

[Questions]

She very well may not have done anything wrong other than miss some tests. But, given that we have heard similar remarks about athletes who have then come out as saying they were doped up to the eyeballs (Lance Armstrong I am looking at you) then athletes who could have just made a genuine mistake will look suspicious. I am not saying they look guilty, just suspicious as we have been lied to so many times before. I think this is a good thing and WADA should keep a close eye on them, just in case.

She did wrong and got punished. No one is arguing against that. A ban was the correct outcome.

 

[Questions]

And therein lies the inequality of it all: Andy Murray is ugly as sin but makes every front page (even when he was losing finals). Nobody talks about his looks or bad hair.

Apart from women on internet forums Edna.

 

[Hillian1]

As for her physique, well there are plenty like her on the circuit.

How many of those have missed 3 drug tests?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

And therein lies the inequality of it all: Andy Murray is ugly as sin but makes every front page (even when he was losing finals). Nobody talks about his looks or bad hair. To be a popular sportswoman in the eyes of the British media, you need to be deemed fit by the writers. Even in 2013, female athletes are judged on their looks in a way that males rarely are.

david beckham/paul scholes

how many women know of the former, how many know of the latter

 

[hans kraay fan club]

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 attractive they are.

There is no way that they are JUDGED as sportspeople based on their looks though. That simply doesn't happen.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

How many of those have missed 3 drug tests?

At the time of her third missed test, SEVENTY British athletes had missed at least one and four had missed two.

 

[Hillian1]

At the time of her third missed test, SEVENTY British athletes had missed at least one and four had missed two.

How many had missed 3 BOF?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

How many had missed 3 BOF?

How many would have missed three had CO not been the fall gal?

I don't know whether things have changed since then. It is accepted that no foul play was suspected and we almost lost a world champ permanently.

 

[Bob!]

Oh how quickly we forget Ms Pendleton.

retired?

 

[Wozza]

Yep, like Addlington and Tweddle.

 

[Simster]

Yep, like Addlington and Tweddle.

Harsh on Addlington - she still fulfills an important role in British swimming: to sycophantically make excuses in the media as to why all our swimmers are complete and utter gash.

 

[Hillian1]

Harsh on Addlington - she still fulfills an important role in British swimming: to sycophantically make excuses in the media as to why all our swimmers are complete and utter gash.

Just to have the words "Adlington" and "Gash" in the same sentence strangely arouses me.

 

[Simster]

You are right. That is very strange.

 

[Mellotron]

david beckham/paul scholes

how many women know of the former, how many know of the latter

Swap their faces and you swap their careers.

 

[keaton]

Swap their faces and you swap their careers.

At least that way Scholes might have done something in an England shirt

 

[joeinbrighton]

Harsh on Addlington - she still fulfills an important role in British swimming: to sycophantically make excuses in the media as to why all our swimmers are complete and utter gash.

Her 2 gold medals in Beijing and additional bronze in London ensure, however, she is the best female British swimmer there has been for decades, regardless of what one thinks of her excuses for other swimmers. Her swim in the 800m in Beijing that broke Janet Evans' 20 year world record was exceptional.