Mrs. M wrote:You can call Symmonds many things, but dumb isn't one of them.
Oh, really? Watch me. This has dumb written all over it. So all of you too dumb to see it, including those of you at the Symmonds camp, start taking notes.
If Symmonds were to be honest with the following questions, this is how he would have to answer.
1) Ok, so let's start with the tough one right off the bat. Why Paris Hilton?
Nick: Oh, because she's famous, of course.
2) So you're really just wanting to use her?
Nick: Why yes, of course.
3) And you thought it a good idea to go public with this?
Nick: Why yes, of course.
4) But, why now? Why right before the Olympic Trials? Why not last year, in October, on a Tuesday, for instance?
Nick: Um, because that wouldn't be very calculating. And well, I'm unapologetically calculating.
5) I see. So what is it that you think you're calculating?
Nick: Well, you see, I'm this hot shot "activist" (I like this term, "activist", chicks love it) in the track and field world, and I'm really just trying to bring attention to the sport.
6) By shamelessly using another human being?
Nick: Yeah, sure.
7) You could've done all this on the downlow. Just reached out to her privately, and then if things worked out, so be it. But you didn't. Why not?
Nick: Because then I wouldn't have gotten to fully milk it for my own selfish purposes.
8) But I thought you were doing this for the sport? You know, the whole using another human being thing?
Nick: Oh, I had my fingers crossed on that one. Gotcha!
9) But why bring attention to "the sport" *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* if all you will be doing is putting a gargantuan magnifying glass on the fact that the sport needs gimmicks such as this in order to validate itself? Aren't you basically saying that you think the sport needs gimmicks like this, strategically timed every four years and whomever gets used or hurt in the process is, well, just part of the process? Aren't you, in essence, proving that your sport is irrelevant if it needs to sink to such blatant publicity stunts?
Nick: Um, I forgot the question. Sorry dude, you lost me at validate.