Zoe Williams Spiteful Piece in Guardian

Good god that was horrible to read. I wonder if she realises what a bitter, nasty individual she sounds! Horsey people don't do emotion? The girl who won silver individual could barely stop sobbing long enough to get her medal poor thing.
Would have been a bit of an anti climax for the watching fans if the team had stood huffing and crying cos they hadn't won gold!
Ahhhhh, that's made me so mad!
 
What a load of twaddle, I can't believe she is a professional journalist, it was more like something written by a fourth former running out of time in an GCE exam, have to admit I could not be bothered to read it all, life's too short.
 
Miss L Toe said:
What a load of twaddle, I can't believe she is a professional journalist, it was more like something written by a fourth former running out of time in an GCE exam, have to admit I could not be bothered to read it all, life's too short.
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This ^^^.
I tried to read it and my eyes glazed over with boredom. I wonder if other sports are suffering too with the ill informed ramblings of journalists who should stick to crayoning cerebrally challenged articles for Heat magazine.

This just reminds me why I stopped buying newspapers years ago.
 
I actually liked it ,it is how we look from the outside you know .
You read her confusion in the article she fishing to understand wants going on you know where she coming from ( the guardian you know) so a actually I thought all things considered if was interesting to read her view.
At least her assessment of the scoring was correct more than could be said for others.
We should not take our selves too seriously.
Dont get started on the plonker from the BBC who asking TC about her Dad in that interview at that moment .
 
it just never does the sport any good after reaching the headlines last night, brings it back down to earth -

Why cant they just be happy for the team, yes gold would have been great but the germans were better at the end of the day and deserved it - the brits are ALWAYS looking to fault and never to praise. - classic

it is the 4th medal won for team GB - thats better than all the other finalists who havent made them medals - there are loads of them - i havent seen any articles slaughtering tom daley and his partner for the 4th place they got..
 
Goldenstar said:
Dont get started on the plonker from the BBC who asking TC about her Dad in that interview at that moment .
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Yup, and did you see the look she gave him at the end of the interview just before the camera came off her? I hope he shrivelled up :(

As for the article, it's the usual thing of someone trying to be funny and making themselves look a bit stupid imo
 
And the one in the telegraph is just lazy. Is it any wonder that our athletes (of all types) are not bringing home golds when they have to put up with such a lack of support from the media. If they do well they are nasty if they do badly they are nasty. If the athletes are emotional they are abused, if they aren't they are abused. Why can't any of the papers publish something celebratory??
 
Not only spiteful and lacking any knowledge or research, it was one of the worst piece's I have ever read! Just reinforces why I don't buy the Guardian - complete load of rubbish!!!
 
I thought they were both very ignorant articles, almost laughable really. They both obviously did absolutely no research at all, just thought they would scramble an article up out of the royal connection. The really sad thing is, thats how the general public see dressage too.:(

Even the news at dinner time last night had to knock her and say that, despite winning the silver medal, it was actually her colleagues that won it really!!! She had the third highest score of the team... She came 8th in her first olympics!!

All week our jounalists have sniped at our athletes - someone came fourth and all they could report was that they "failed" to get a medal, rather than that they battled through various heats to narrowly miss a medal... Then they wonder why our athletes are not smooth and confident as other nations - its largely down to our press building them up to super heros that can't possibly live up to the hype, then smashing them back down when they don't.
 
Love the reader's comment suggesting she has been spurned by a boy who opted for a horsey girl instead.

I suspect Miss Williams is one of our HHO trolls in her spare time, she is certainly well qualified in the bitter and twisted department.
 
Just read the piece by Stephen Moss in the Guardian Olympic section. Hope they allow him to keep providing equestrian coverage after the Olympics.
 
Dear fellow posters.

If you can spare the time I think we should all be posting our views on the websites of the papers concerned as well as voicing our concerns to BE.

The Eventing coverage was fantastic and I hope that both dressage and SJ benefit from the same number of TV hours and press coverage, even without the Royal interest. The Silver medal for team GB was equally fantastic and to have all our riders finish in the top 19 was truly remarkable.

To have it marred by inaccurate, ill-informed and amateurish reporting undermines all that has been so positive and impressive in our great sport and as knowledgable enthusiasts, riders and horse owners we owe to ourselves and our team riders to make our feelings known.

OK - I'm off my soap box! Apart from agreeing about the insensitivity and irrelevance of asking Tina about the sad death of her father (a racing great)!

Off to watch our rowers - come on team GB!
 
I don't understand what you are all getting worked up about.

I think it was quite funny because of it's perspective. Clearly written by an outsider, commenting on some of the more curious aspects of equestrian sport as they see it.

As for the royal-bashing; it's never nice, but they're used to it and know how to deal with it. Compared to some of the vitriol often meted out in their direction I thought it was quite mild.

Lighten up. You should never believe anything you read in the papers.
 
Blimey what a horrible article, shocking how twisted and nasty she is. With all the investigations about the nasty tweets about Tom Daly I'm surprised this isn't considered equally menacing.

Some of the remarks are inappropriately personal and extremely unpleasant. Its worrying to think that the editors of these papers think our country are nasty enough to find this style of writing funny.

I never buy newspapers anyway but will definitely be steering well clear of anything to do with the Guardian after reading this.
 
I wonder if anyone has pointed out to these journalists that an Olympic standard road bike, for example, will cost upwards of £10,000, not to mention the training costs. So why is equestrianism singled out every time? Even running at a higher level requires quite a bit of financial outlay. I know a few keen runners (not Olympic athletes) and the money they spend on their shoes, supplements and gadgets would make your eyes water!

The article left a nasty taste in my mouth. Not surprised, though. I think quite a lot of the journalism during this Olympiad has been substandard.
 
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