as anybody seen this yet....

Eventinggirl3827 said:
no he doesn't :(

what I'm wondering is why he went to the press about it?
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Same reason as he created so much of a fuss about a judge down marking him at the Paralympics just so he couldn't win - to try and get his own way and get the awards he THINKS he deserves and has every right to. He fails to realise that he really doesn't deserve them because of his petty behaviour. If he kept his trap shut it might be a bit different.
 
He really does no-one any favours at all does he - he needs to get the chips off his shoulder - he really could be a superstar - but he is like a naughty 3 year old with his tantrums.
 
Crimbowitch said:
He really does no-one any favours at all does he - he needs to get the chips off his shoulder -
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I'd say, good on him! It is a FACT that the Awards were far more liberally awarded to the able-bodied Olympians - and always have been. But the Paralympians deserve them at LEAST as much: they have to work much harder, have much more difficulty getting sponsorship etc., and do SO much to inspire young people with disabilities to get out there and try to emulate them!

Lee will get stick for speaking out - but someone has to, or nothing will change!
 
My instructor personally know him and says he is a complete **** and this is a women who never bad mouths anyone, so for her to say this makes me believe it! Shame as he rides so well!
 
He possibly isn't 'that bad', but sadly his media exposure leads us all to believe he suffers fools even less than the rest of us.

Life has dealt him a comparatively unfair hand, in Western, developed world terms - but he has a more supported and enriched life than many of the elderly in Britain!

His outspokenness, although probably fair enough in its content, doesn't do him any favours at all! He ought to have left the speaking-out to a team coach.

I feel sorry for his mum, most of all - she'll want her lad to have his efforts recognised and reading stuff like this isn't going to cheer her up.
 
JanetGeorge said:
I'd say, good on him! It is a FACT that the Awards were far more liberally awarded to the able-bodied Olympians - and always have been. But the Paralympians deserve them at LEAST as much: they have to work much harder, have much more difficulty getting sponsorship etc., and do SO much to inspire young people with disabilities to get out there and try to emulate them!

Lee will get stick for speaking out - but someone has to, or nothing will change!
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I agree with you on certain points, but I think he really should speak to a PR company or someone who can enhance his image. I take nothing away from his day to day struggle with his disability but there are equally disabled people who are far more gracious but still get their voices heard in relation to disability rights. Tanni Grey-Thompson is one such example.
I too, have heard that he is rather too full of his own importance to be particularly likeable from somebody he has been at training with. His attitude doesn't affect me but if he's not careful I think public opinion will start to drift towards ambivalence and then dislike.
 
brightinsel said:
He possibly isn't 'that bad', but sadly his media exposure leads us all to believe he suffers fools even less than the rest of us.

Life has dealt him a comparatively unfair hand, in Western, developed world terms - but he has a more supported and enriched life than many of the elderly in Britain!

His outspokenness, although probably fair enough in its content, doesn't do him any favours at all! He ought to have left the speaking-out to a team coach.

I feel sorry for his mum, most of all - she'll want her lad to have his efforts recognised and reading stuff like this isn't going to cheer her up.
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You are so right, you know. But then he shouldn't be saying HE THOUGHT he should be knighted because he's probably way on the NOT TO DO list (Not that they have one, but you can see my point) :rolleyes:
 
Agree with Baggybreeches, he definitely needs a good PR person, although the media seem interpret things on what will sell a paper and quite often an interviewee is misquoted :o :o
 
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