I'm starting to hope she blows the field away in the Final. She looks so stressed and is not having fun in these championships. You can sense the pressure. Poor girl. I want her to stay in the sport, she needs a big win. Put a smile up!!
Too many high pressure championship meets/races in too short a time span. Not to mention all the travel, wear and tear, etc. Yes, others have done all three meets and made it work, but everyone is different and handles physical and mental stress differently. There's a decent case to be made to pick two out of the three and let the chips fall where they may.
But 100% agree that she's great for the sport and has earned a big medal. Hope she gets it!
I can’t care less if she stays in the sport or not. If she goes, someone else talented will take her place. She’s “good for the sport” why? Coz she’s an above-average-cute white girl who happens to be near the top of her sport?
I suspect she and a number of other British athletes with genuine European Championship medal aspirations would have skipped the Commonweath Games had it not been in the UK.
As a Brit who see’s the media furore from over here can I chime in,she’s ok doing the media but unlike some other Brits she’s not a whore for it and iam pretty sure it’s part of the athletes contract that they have to pass through the media corridor and def talk to the BBC,sure she’d love to just on sometimes it’s not like any of the questions are going to be anything unpredictable,athletics is one of the few sports the BBC still covers extensively [very],everyone has bbc on their t.v’s regardless of whatever else they might subscribe to,all of this summers three championships have been broadcast live all day simply alternating for large chunks between different bbc channels,she is hugely hyped also by the newspapers and their on-line content,she definitely knew what she was getting into being coached/mentored by an ex GB athlete and based at Loughborough’s high performance centre and having grown up seeing all this play out for athletes before her[the presentation and hype has followed a formula for further back than 2012],all of the above media love their ‘narratives’ with athletes the favourites being a win at a different competition being ‘revenge’ for a loss at another and this next one a huge Brit favourite,getting [idealy] a win in Olympic/worlds/comm’s/euros within the same competition [‘the full set’]cycle and for her that won’t disappear with compression of these various champs due to the cancellations/delays,of course she’s not going to walk away from it all even this year certainly by Paris she would be recognised on the street by a goodly chunk of the public,having watched the heats etc for her event yeah she should win and hope she does ,the other competitors seem to be racing purely to position themselves for the bunch race behind her,all credit if someone try’s to take a flyer in the first lap,in her race this morning it looked like an athlete pushed hard to get just in front of her on the rail then eased off,rightly thinking she had one lane and K the other albeit further ahead
As a Brit who see’s the media furore from over here can I chime in,she’s ok doing the media but unlike some other Brits she’s not a whore for it and iam pretty sure it’s part of the athletes contract that they have to pass through the media corridor and def talk to the BBC,sure she’d love to just on sometimes it’s not like any of the questions are going to be anything unpredictable,athletics is one of the few sports the BBC still covers extensively [very],everyone has bbc on their t.v’s regardless of whatever else they might subscribe to,all of this summers three championships have been broadcast live all day simply alternating for large chunks between different bbc channels,she is hugely hyped also by the newspapers and their on-line content,she definitely knew what she was getting into being coached/mentored by an ex GB athlete and based at Loughborough’s high performance centre and having grown up seeing all this play out for athletes before her[the presentation and hype has followed a formula for further back than 2012],all of the above media love their ‘narratives’ with athletes the favourites being a win at a different competition being ‘revenge’ for a loss at another and this next one a huge Brit favourite,getting [idealy] a win in Olympic/worlds/comm’s/euros within the same competition [‘the full set’]cycle and for her that won’t disappear with compression of these various champs due to the cancellations/delays,of course she’s not going to walk away from it all even this year certainly by Paris she would be recognised on the street by a goodly chunk of the public,having watched the heats etc for her event yeah she should win and hope she does ,the other competitors seem to be racing purely to position themselves for the bunch race behind her,all credit if someone try’s to take a flyer in the first lap,in her race this morning it looked like an athlete pushed hard to get just in front of her on the rail then eased off,rightly thinking she had one lane and K the other albeit further ahead
As a Brit who see’s the media furore from over here can I chime in,she’s ok doing the media but unlike some other Brits she’s not a whore for it and iam pretty sure it’s part of the athletes contract that they have to pass through the media corridor and def talk to the BBC,sure she’d love to just on sometimes it’s not like any of the questions are going to be anything unpredictable,athletics is one of the few sports the BBC still covers extensively [very],everyone has bbc on their t.v’s regardless of whatever else they might subscribe to,all of this summers three championships have been broadcast live all day simply alternating for large chunks between different bbc channels,she is hugely hyped also by the newspapers and their on-line content,she definitely knew what she was getting into being coached/mentored by an ex GB athlete and based at Loughborough’s high performance centre and having grown up seeing all this play out for athletes before her[the presentation and hype has followed a formula for further back than 2012],all of the above media love their ‘narratives’ with athletes the favourites being a win at a different competition being ‘revenge’ for a loss at another and this next one a huge Brit favourite,getting [idealy] a win in Olympic/worlds/comm’s/euros within the same competition [‘the full set’]cycle and for her that won’t disappear with compression of these various champs due to the cancellations/delays,of course she’s not going to walk away from it all even this year certainly by Paris she would be recognised on the street by a goodly chunk of the public,having watched the heats etc for her event yeah she should win and hope she does ,the other competitors seem to be racing purely to position themselves for the bunch race behind her,all credit if someone try’s to take a flyer in the first lap,in her race this morning it looked like an athlete pushed hard to get just in front of her on the rail then eased off,rightly thinking she had one lane and K the other albeit further ahead
I'm starting to hope she blows the field away in the Final. She looks so stressed and is not having fun in these championships. You can sense the pressure. Poor girl. I want her to stay in the sport, she needs a big win. Put a smile up!!
It's supposed to be stressful, it's high level competition.
I'm starting to hope she blows the field away in the Final. She looks so stressed and is not having fun in these championships. You can sense the pressure. Poor girl. I want her to stay in the sport, she needs a big win. Put a smile up!!
It's supposed to be stressful, it's high level competition.
Nobody ever posted about how Caster wasn’t having fun. The dude cares about Keely because he would like to baby sit her. So pathetic.
Yeah apologies for the essay ,looked at it before posting and thought about rewriting it shorter then thought f**k it,unlike most of the forums responses it’s [A] pretty on topic of the thread [B]wasnt a personal attack on anybody ,I do like commas though
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