[Teaboy]

im all for them showing what they want,they spend hours training and look good as a result.

Hooray, striking a blow for female emancipation.

better than seeing those slags from things to do in essex in the papers everyday

........or maybe not.

[SamT]

Very interesting insight in this documentary... 'baggage' springs to mind.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01l1yl4/

[shark]

Very interesting insight in this documentary... 'baggage' springs to mind.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01l1yl4/

So awesome and so vulnerable 

[slackline]

[shark]

The best runner is the one having the most fun

You're mining a rich vein - keep up the good work

[gme]

Crying shame she never qualified.

[Nibile]

Somehow off topic, somehow in.

[slackline]

You're mining a rich vein

Representing Paraguay in the javelin, Leryn Franco....

[dave]

You're mining a rich vein

Representing Paraguay in the javelin, Leryn Franco....

A mate in prison asked me to post the following sexist wisecrack:

"she can represent my javelin any day"

That is all.

[Johnny Brown]

Is anybody else finding this all a bit distasteful?

I'm really not sure. Can we see some more examples?

[mark s]

Is anybody else finding this all a bit distasteful?

I'm really not sure. Can we see some more examples?

second that,maybe some nude ones so we can really see if we are offended

[underground]

Very interesting insight in this documentary... 'baggage' springs to mind.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01l1yl4/

So awesome and so vulnerable 

Aren't we all...

[Bubba]

Really good documentary that. Not sure about "baggage", she just wasn't very confident early on and had a pushy parent. Not so unusual surely?  She comes across as a really nice woman and it was refreshing to see such honesty and emotion on show.  I'll be cheering for her over the next few weeks.

[dave]

Her dad reminded me of competative dad on The Fast Show.

[mrconners]

You're mining a rich vein

Representing Paraguay in the javelin, Leryn Franco....

A mate in prison asked me to post the following sexist wisecrack:

"she can represent my javelin any day"

That is all.

We could have some mention of handling spears. Any others?

[SamT]

I guess the 'baggage' I referred to was more short term i.e. whats happened within the team since Beijing etc.  The pressure she's put under from both herself and the team (not to mention the nation) is just incredible.  She doesn't really looked to have enjoyed the last 8 years of her life at all (well - professionally anyway) - its all a bit 'ho hum, another world champ'.

How crap is she going to feel if she bins it in qualifying and breaks a collar bone or something. 

[Dave Garry]

In Reply to the original post - is anyone finding it distastful blah blah

no I find it refreshing that these althetes are making sports sexy. the press are always going to sell sex so in my eyes I would rather my girl grow up in a world were when she looks at a semi/naked photo in a magazine and asks "Daddy whos that" I can reply "oh thats triple world champion such an such"  or "thats a 2012 gold medalist" rather than some tramp girl who just likes to take her clothes off for attention or a stick thin "super model" that has been photo shopped to death.

"Daddy I want a body like her"
"great now get on ya bike and get down the shops to buy me some beer"     

[horn]

The Paralympians are at it to! Japanese sprinter Maya Nakanishi looking absolutely stunning

[magpie]

I find it refreshing that these althetes are making sports sexy. the press are always going to sell sex so in my eyes I would rather my girl grow up in a world were when she looks at a semi/naked photo in a magazine and asks "Daddy whos that" I can reply "oh thats triple world champion such an such"  or "thats a 2012 gold medalist" rather than some tramp girl who just likes to take her clothes off for attention or a stick thin "super model" that has been photo shopped to death.

That pretty much sums up my feelings, albeit a little blunter than I would have put it, we're always going to have naked women (and men) in the press so I'd rather have ones who look incredible because they're fit and healthy and train hard than ones who look incredible because they constantly diet, have cosmetic surgery and are airbrushed.

[Johnny Brown]

Pendleton's Sunday times article this weekend/ pending book detailing her 'self-harm hell' are fast elevating her to attention-seeking annoyance in my book.

[shark]

Pendleton's Sunday times article this weekend/ pending book detailing her 'self-harm hell' are fast elevating her to attention-seeking annoyance in my book.

You're so cutting

[shark]

Without wishing to state the bleeding obvious, is no one else playing?

[shark]

 

[dr_botnik]

theres little comedy to be found in this vein...

[Bubba]

Don't want to seem humourless but come on, whether or not you think Pendleton's self harm is "real" enough for you, the subject isn't really one to make jokes about.