Actually, it's noticeable that Keely hasn't yet appeared in any advertising campaigns in the UK. A pretty girl with an individual global medal usually ends up with a bottle of shampoo in one hand and a yoghurt pot in the other within weeks.
Thing is, we have quite a lot of olympic gold medallists in the country these days and, so far, she hasn't won on the world stage. Rather than necessarily winning there also needs to be an interesting and different story attached and, at the moment, the story is that she's basically really really really good. In a competitive commercial field that doesn't quite hit the spot as yet!
Dina Asher-Smith's fame eclipses all other female athletes in the UK at the moment, because she won a World title in 2019. Even when she nearly dropped out of the relays at the Worlds in Eugene, dropped out of her 100m final in the Europeans and was in the relay team that didn't make it round in Munich, she was the athlete interviewed first and for longest by the BBC, even though Daryl Neita is running very well and in fact finished in front of her in the 100m final, winning bronze. All of the attention was still on Dina. Dina of course recently won a 200m Worlds silver, which will keep her in the public eye.
Keely is too white and blond for the notoriously woke BBC to focus on much, which she is probably glad of considering how Dina is currently performing. BAME and mixed race people only make up around 12% of the UK population but because of avoiding accusations of racism or favouring white people, they actually feature much heavily than that on tv and in advertising. Keely just doesn't have the right profile at the moment as any companies using her could risk it backfiring by being accused of promoting white athletes at the expense of BAME. Likewise, Jake Wightman was a worlds gold medallist in Eugene and I haven't seen him in any advert campaigns, although his season is just finishing so maybe that will change.
Thing is, we have quite a lot of olympic gold medallists in the country these days and, so far, she hasn't won on the world stage. Rather than necessarily winning there also needs to be an interesting and different story attached and, at the moment, the story is that she's basically really really really good. In a competitive commercial field that doesn't quite hit the spot as yet!
Dina Asher-Smith's fame eclipses all other female athletes in the UK at the moment, because she won a World title in 2019. Even when she nearly dropped out of the relays at the Worlds in Eugene, dropped out of her 100m final in the Europeans and was in the relay team that didn't make it round in Munich, she was the athlete interviewed first and for longest by the BBC, even though Daryl Neita is running very well and in fact finished in front of her in the 100m final, winning bronze. All of the attention was still on Dina. Dina of course recently won a 200m Worlds silver, which will keep her in the public eye.
Keely is too white and blond for the notoriously woke BBC to focus on much, which she is probably glad of considering how Dina is currently performing. BAME and mixed race people only make up around 12% of the UK population but because of avoiding accusations of racism or favouring white people, they actually feature much heavily than that on tv and in advertising. Keely just doesn't have the right profile at the moment as any companies using her could risk it backfiring by being accused of promoting white athletes at the expense of BAME. Likewise, Jake Wightman was a worlds gold medallist in Eugene and I haven't seen him in any advert campaigns, although his season is just finishing so maybe that will change.
I don't know if you know but what you've just written shows what your sensitivities/insecurities are.
Anyone have any idea how much Keeley and Mu are making? Sorry if this has been discussed before. If SM is making 7 figures, both Keeley and Mu should be making a pretty penny considering they actually race real races
She has the World Record in the 400 hurdles lol. She is the Olympic and Worlds gold medalist lol smh. What does the complexion of her skin have to do with her success??
Not remotely close? 50 for a woman and 45 for a man. Those times are competitive without hurdles. You are crazy.
Extremely fast and extremely impressive.
BUT, events like the 400h, pole vault, steeple and others will never be as competitive as the 100m or 1500. Access, opportunity, and interest just isn’t there like it is for the prime time events.
Sydney Mclaughlin is a religious personality, that's why she's so popular. All the crazy religious americans love her because of it.
Also, she has lightskin privilege, same thing Felix and Lolo Jones have.
I may or may not be around / not-senile when the generation after Z starts having influence in the world, but they are going to rebel so hard against this stuff. By stuff I mean, the current generations weird, almost brainwashed compulsion to find evil systemic whatever-ism in absolutely everything. It’s not enough that any actual racist would consider McLaughlin black “enough,” now we have to align all black and part-black people on a chart of their own to find out who society is allegedly crapping on. It never stops, and that’s what drives people bonkers over this stuff: there is no opportunity to sit back and enjoy something, you always have to be searching for the privilege and oppression in anything, even if you have to make it up. The after-Z kids are going to crap on this stuff so hard. Their youth rebellion can’t come soon enough: that day when the kids rag on critical theory thinking as so uncool. That may be the only thing that finally destroys it, since it rejects logic and rational argument. It will take the next set of kids dismissing it and making its proponents feel like the stuffed-shirts they, in fact, are.
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