That's all she is. The OP just jumped the gun a bit. There are loads of top GB athletes who aren't in Istanbul, so the Olympic athletics skipper could still be anyone.
I love the Mail's article on this, where the headline screams 'it couldve been Farrah but instead it's a plastic Brit'. The irony is almost hilarious.
You lot make me sick. Twenty posts and not one of you has had the decency to ask the question. Would you? Erik need not reply.
Nationality is one of those funny things. I found it hilarious in the January squad lists to see that Owen Hargreaves is not classed as homegrown.
Half the England football team can't sing the national anthem! Complete non story Bollocks you should expect off the daily racist!
Can't or don't want to. It's a bit different. I agree though it's a ****e reason to have a pop at her.
This ^ ! The OP did jump the gun a bit ! . I'm on Holiday,so i thought it would ok to start drinking that bottle of whiskey early in the day. To be fair to myself though,i am a great believer,in sporting people competing for their own country in any sport. Let me put it this way. If England won the world cup,with a team full of Japanese. Would it feel right ?
Oh and i wasn't having a pop at her. Just the people who thought she would be the best choice for team captain !
All of those who class the English team as non English need to really look at yourselves, and stop being xenophobic, and possibly learn the facts of the individuals. Only Jonathan Trott and Keiswetter(its in the name) are not English, the others are as much Englishas they are South African if not more English. I think Strauss spent two minutes there and all of a sudden he's not English..... Nationality is about what you feel you are, if you feel the pride in that nation, if you feel associated to that nation. If someone was born in Egypt to Egyptians parents but was forced here at the age of two and grew up here, and felt he was English, who am i to disagree.
So I guess you don't approve of the recent influx of athletes, then? (ie Porter, Cox, Aldama, Proctor.)
Why would i not agree? I am saying that you shouldn't just state someone is not English because there not born here, nationality is far more complex than that.
I'm getting the impression that not many people on here follow athletics very closely. These are not people who have spent time growing up in more than one country and feel torn - they all have one clear primary nation and are not competing for that nation. They served no residency period (like Kevin Pietersen did), but were bought cynically by UK Athletics in order to boost the UK's 2012 medal count. I'm not knocking the athletes - Porter got far more financial and training support by committing to the UK, while Proctor couldn't compete for Anguilla in the Olympics as they're not in the IOC - but the fact remains that they were not born or remotely raised here and might as well be competing for Australia, Qatar (as many Kenyans now do) or Jupiter. Nationality should not be bought like this. As for the cricketers, people lump too many together and weaken their case by including Strauss and Prior, who are clearly, clearly English. Pietersen, Trott, Kieswetter, Dernbach etc are open to question, for sure.
