Racers race but babies cry wrote:
No, the people in the race who were all offended only heard a factual comment about her height and weight. The barbie comment was from a year ago. Mije Jay akso talked about her wins and her career and her major and her homestead. That is why he is the best in the business. But now one factual comment turned her against him and attracted the attentuon of the other runners. Dont botger ever watching another sporting event becayse they introduce athletes by height and wdight and age and wins and losses and college attended. Not female dustance runnefs though. It's not bad enough that nobody watches distance running. Now the commentators can't comment. Nobody knows how good they have it.
I'm sure most of the runners in the race were well aware of the "Barbies" comment from last year. Ostrander isn't exactly an unknown in the event, it was on a national broadcast, it's a relatively small group of athletes at the top level of NCAA in the steeple and they talk.
If you bothered to read the article, the point was about how weird it was to mention it over the loudspeaker at that crucial time in the race, not that it could never be mentioned. I don't think anyone has said height and weight can't be mentioned so stop pretending that's the issue. The issue is the weird focus and overemphasis on it, especially during the peak moment of the race.