posted 5 Weeks Ago

Great stuff for Beth & British gymnastics - all she needed was someone to tell her she was the best earlier in her career and she would already have been Olympic Champion.

Not bad, two British sports people crowned world champion on the same day.

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

I'm sorry, it isn't sexism. It is what the majority of the british public want to hear.

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

Gannon,

As someone who rides a 1200cc BMW motorbike, (all year round, in all weathers and on the track) I know enough about motorcycling, to know that the overwhelming majority of the British public are not remotely interested in the MotoGP.

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

Well then, the way they have done it is Jenson first (and rightly so), followed by the rest of the motorsport. Then football for the masses, and lastly the gymnastics which is fair enough.

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

As someone who rides a 1200cc BMW motorbike, (all year round, in all weathers and on the track) I know enough about motorcycling, to know that the overwhelming majority of the British public are not remotely interested in the MotoGP.

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This may well be true, but I'd like to bet that they're no more interested in Gymnastics either.

At the end of the day, the media will show whatever the viewers want, and if they think that Gymnastics comes last, then they're probably right.

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

The media tell us what THEY think we should hear.

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

"The media tell us what THEY think we should hear."

Tin hat?

They tell you what you want to hear - otherwise their audience goes elsewhere, and they don't survive. Maybe it's just a happy coincidence that this matches their football-and-F1 ideals that they secretly want to project onto us in some sort of evil conspiracy.

Put it this way: after the World Championship in Gymnastics there are a paltry 4 threads in the 606 gymnastics section. There's about 4 a minute in the football section - throughout the year.

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

The media don't tell ME what I want to hear! I want to hear about loads of different sports not just bloody football. They just assume we want to hear aout football because "them that shouts the loudest". If you walked up to a bloke in the street and asked if he knew that Beth Tweddle had won a world gold I bet the average bloke wouldn't say yes, but I'm also willing to bet that he'd be pretty impressed when he found out.

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

That is the trouble though Hannah..

You only really hear of these lesser sports if a Brit person/team does well.

How many really take note of Rowing and Sailing apart from in the Olympics.

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posted 3 Weeks Ago

We have not been rubbish at gymnastsics - artistic perhaps but our ACROBATIC gymnasts have been winning WORLD and EUROPEAN medals for years. This year alone we won medals in all categories at the World Games and 26 medals at the European Championships just last month. Where is the publicity and the recognition for these guys. They don't get the thousands of pounds in sponsorships that Tweddle, Smith, Keating & Co receive.

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