Just as an asthmatic pug is the same species as a greyhound, so too is streaking in the same species a Kipchoge marathon. Yes, streaking-the kind people first think of when you talk about run streaks, and the silly counterweight to the emotional heaviness of giving your all. As they say here, cheers!Īrt Spander has earned a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.A streaker warms up the track before the final of the men’s 100m at the 2017 World Championships Antonin Thuillier/AFP/ // Getty Images It’s the trivial in which England loves to dwell.Ī well-struck backhand doesn’t mean much, but a streaker and a grunter are just what the country, and tabloids, ordered. And if the tour has allowed her to do such noise, it’s…” But that’s the way she’s (been) playing for a long time. “Personally,” said Dementieva of the grunting, “I think it’s a little too much. You got some.”Īnd after the match, we got Dementieva, another Russian, complaining about the sounds Sharapova makes with each swing of the racket, sounds which led to the confrontation with the man from the Daily Mail. Hey, you guys wanted some entertainment during a women’s match. But she has lived in Florida more than a decade and speaks perfect English. “I try not to let things distract me,” said Sharapova, who was champion two years ago. Nothing quite as dramatic Tuesday at the All-England Club. She even briefly grabbed the flagpole before police grabbed her. Andrews as Tiger Woods was winning the 2000 British Open. The 1996 final between Richard Krajicek and MalaVai Washington was delayed when a young lady, Melissa Johnson, wearing only a maid’s apron, sprinted past as the two contestants posed for a prematch photo.Īs if to prove nothing is sacred, a woman, Jacqui Salmond, wearing glasses - and nothing else - ran from the crowd alongside the 18th green at St. People have raced nude across Wimbledon’s green grass a number of times. If baseball were played in England, somebody would streak that. The question only comes up at Wimbledon, where you guys have all your Suns and the Daily Mails and all that.”Īnd where, invariably we have streakers because there’s something in the British psyche that makes people take off their clothes and interfere with a sporting event no matter what, tennis, golf, soccer, even cricket. You know I always have the same answer to this question. They wanted to know if Maria’s grunting on each shot was louder than in previous matches, a query presented by a reporter from one of the tabloids, of course, the Daily Mail. Even more bizarre that it took 10 seconds for security to come out. “I knew the question was going to come,” Sharapova said. They wanted to know Sharapova’s reaction when during the second set of her 6-1, 6-4 victory over Elena Dementieva a male streaker leaped from the stands and did cartwheels until a red blanket was wrapped around him, and he was led away. The four winners were the four top seeds, No.1, Amelie Mauresmo No.2, Kim Clijsters No.3 Justine Henin-Hardenne No.4 Sharapova, a rare situation when that occurs.īut do you think the journalists in attendance were interested? Or cared about the quality of play? Please. No Americans as you’re aware, but that’s besides the point. The Wimbledon women’s quarterfinals were held Tuesday. Maybe it’s driving on the left side of the road.Maybe it’s nearly 2,000 years of never being invaded.
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