Rebecca Adlington: UK Olympians Puts Manners Before Medals
REBECCA Adlington is in conversation with the Mail. Who she? She’s young (a teenager), blonde and dressed in a swimsuit.
No, this is the Mail, not some down market redtop that encourages its readers to perv at the strumpets. Ms Adlington, of the Beijing Adlingtons, is a swimmer and she’s here to “RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN BRITAIN”.
Rebecca’s loves a good roast. No. No, not a Faliraki spit roast, but a roast from her mummy’s over. Says Rebecca:
“I love my mother’s roast and my plate is always filled twice as high as everyone else’s.”
Greedy Britain? Nothing of it, Says Rebecca:
“For me being British is about politeness, kindness and fair play. You see it in the athletes’ village: people from other countries can be quite aggressive, pushing in queues and not treating each other with respect – but our lot are the complete opposite and I love that.”
“After you,” say Britain’s runners to their foe. Manners before medals is the mantra.
Says Rebecca: “The Brits are saying things like, ‘Sorry, you go first’.” And we imagine the Chinese, Russians and American do.
Manners before medals…
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August 24th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Quite so, and, added to Saul’s empty washing up bottles and empty loo rolls, could have been used to great effect in the opening ceremony in 2012.
Inflated, of course…
August 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Chenier
Apparently they handed out 100.000 condoms free in the village.
Which is a great pity.
What better than top athletes producing our next generation, rather than the Onslows and similar couch potatoes.
August 24th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
According to the Times there’s lots of sex in the olympic city; I do hope they remember that nice guys come last..
August 24th, 2008 at 11:02 am
They done us proud!