Radcliffe - splitter

[n1 gull]

I must say I can't bear her and was cheering the African girl on

 

[Commander]

Getaway...

I also don't like the olympics. I think they're shit.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Oh and she ran the 10,000 metres in Sydney, not the marathon.

I was only going on what I was told on here. I don't know anything about the olympics. [/B][/QUOTE]

My fault, should have been more specific, 10K is just 6 miles. A marathon is 26miles and a bit, The heat took its toll in the Sydney 10k, imagine what it did in Athens which was worse ... lot, lot worse.

 

[Easy 10]

It was hot.
Paula got knackered.
She gave up.

Nuff said.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

It was hot.
Paula got knackered.
She gave up.

Nuff said.

Bastard, you've gone and spoilt it now just when it was starting to get vaguely interesting.

 

[Brovion]

Great thread.

I can't understand how such a consistently good runner got it so wrong in the Olympics. Yes, there were hot weather conditions but these were predictable, and she obviously didn't prepare properly.

Whatever she does from now on (and I hope she has great success) makes no difference to me, cos she let us all down.

Ok Deportivo......

Absolutely El Pres. In the Olympics she let HERSELF down. She let HER COACH down. She let THE TEAM down. She let HER FAMILY down. She let THE COUNTRY down. She let her DEAD GRANNY down. No matter how many tinpot City marathons she wins she'll always be remembered for bottling it when it REALLY MATTERED.

 

[Easy 10]

Bastard, you've gone and spoilt it now just when it was starting to get vaguely interesting.

I just felt that SOMEONE needed to draw a line under all this.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Ok Deportivo......

Absolutely El Pres. In the Olympics she let HERSELF down. She let HER COACH down. She let THE TEAM down. She let HER FAMILY down. She let THE COUNTRY down. She let her DEAD GRANNY down. No matter how many tinpot City marathons she wins she'll always be remembered for bottling it when it REALLY MATTERED.

Pavilionaire, not Deportivo / El Pres, dumbass!...

At least we agree.

The only way she can atone is by winning the next Olympics.

We have precious few decent sportswomen without her letting the side down. Thank God for Kelly Holmes - Sports Personality Of The Year Elect 2004.

 

[Brovion]

Pavilionaire, not Deportivo / El Pres, dumbass!...

At least we agree.

The only way she can atone is by winning the next Olympics.

We have precious few decent sportswomen without her letting the side down. Thank God for Kelly Holmes - Sports Personality Of The Year Elect 2004.

Sorry! Misread the name of the original poster! Don't know how I got El Pres mixed up with Pavilionaire. The 'Ok Deportivo' was aimed at Depo who reckoned the thread was getting boring.

I have to say my posting was more for effect than a reflection of what I feel but sadly nobody bit. I do find it very strange though that none of us can play professional football and none of us can run Olympic marathons. However you can slag off footballers until you're blue in the face, calling them lazy, useless etc, and no one gives a monkeys. If anybody DARES to criticise St Paula they are castiagted as an unfeeling bastard. That's what really irritates me, nothing to do with her performances.

 

[Yorkie]

Dare I suggest that most of you want to criticise her because she broke down crying and is in fact a woman??

Weak emotional woman, therefore a right off?

A sportman would never give up, oh no, cos he's a real man.

Right !!

 

[smudge]

Well done Paula.

I get the feeling that her critics were hoping she'd have to stop again.

Wankers

 

[Yoda]

Oh FFS!!! Not Paula again.

I was in Athens for the Olympics, staying at a hotel only about 25mins into the marathon route.

The day of the marathon, it was one of the hottest and calmest days of the games.

She tried to break them in the first 15-20 miles of the race but did not succeed. If you saw your dream slipping away from you would this happen to you? The heart takes over from the mind and your legs start to feel heavier and heavier until the whole emotion thing takes over and you'd have no more left to continue.

Being an Athlete at county level, I even tried to train one day out there (even though my season had just ended) and I couldn't even get round to doing my 2nd set. It was just too hot, and that was 6 days into my stay out there. (Plenty of time to acclimatize) So I have first hand experience of what she had to go through.

*Get's of chair*

 

[Roger Mellie]

splitter

 

[Brovion]

Dare I suggest that most of you want to criticise her because she broke down crying and is in fact a woman??

Weak emotional woman, therefore a right off?

A sportman would never give up, oh no, cos he's a real man.

Right !!

I don't want to criticise her at all, but as she's a sportsperson in the public eye she's going to have her good performances praised and her bad ones panned.

She lost in the Olympics either because she quit or because she was poorly prepared, whatever. She won on Sunday because she WAS prepared and kept digging deep every time the Kenyan tried to kick. I watched every minute of it and it was inspiring stuff. Still though no one has answered my question as to why she should be above criticism.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Still though no one has answered my question as to why she should be above criticism.

no-one is above criticism, butmost of the criticism was akin to kicking a dog when it's down. In fact there was a lot of the criticism which seemed to have been written with absolute pleasure because of the pre-olympic hype.

 

[Brovion]

no-one is above criticism, butmost of the criticism was akin to kicking a dog when it's down. In fact there was a lot of the criticism which seemed to have been written with absolute pleasure because of the pre-olympic hype.

True, and in that respect she's second behind David Beckham in the "kick 'em while they're down" stakes. Still doesn't explain why most NSC posters say "marathon running is very hard so shut up".

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

True, and in that respect she's second behind David Beckham in the "kick 'em while they're down" stakes. Still doesn't explain why most NSC posters say "marathon running is very hard so shut up".

Now that is funny .. when nearly half the population are obese and couldn't run to catch a bus, it would appear that marathons are easy. The reason i stuck to running 10k's and 1/2 marathons was because I didn't have the time or inclination to run the 80-100 miles a week you need to get the fitness levels.

next week , triathlon's in flips-flops and a towel on a diet of curry and beer ... coz it's easy

 

[Brovion]

Now that is funny .. when nearly half the population are obese and couldn't run to catch a bus, it would appear that marathons are easy. The reason i stuck to running 10k's and 1/2 marathons was because I didn't have the time or inclination to run the 80-100 miles a week you need to get the fitness levels.

next week , triathlon's in flips-flops and a towel on a diet of curry and beer ... coz it's easy

AAARRGGHHHH! That's PRECISELY the point of view I was moaning about. No one has ever said running a Marathon is easy, indeed before the New York marathon popularised the sport it was generally agreed in athletics circles that only the clinically insane ran marathons (speaking as an 800 / 1500 metre runner). But as I've said in previous posts (which you obviously haven't read), playing professional football, or any sport, at the highest level is 'hard', and yet other sportspeople can be criticised without this constant reference to "well you couldn't do it".

 

[caz99]

JUST ONE QUESTION WHO BLOODY CARES

 

[Brovion]

Actually just re-reading your post Deportivo it MUST have been a wind-up. I tried one earlier up the thread but nobody went for it. Got me!