The Olympics 2012, Newspapers & Paparazzi

Anyone who knows me knows I have not purchased a trashy magazine since the day Princess Diana died on the 31st of August 1997.  Childish?  Maybe.  But it is my way of boycotting the rubbish that gets printed in those magazines on a weekly basis and the so called paparazzi that hound people and print absurd stories and air brushed photos.

Which brings me to the Olympics 2012.  Good god, what is the Australian media and certain parts of the population doing to our athletes?  Leisel Jones is fat?  James Magnussen is a failure.  We haven’t won enough gold medals.  We didn’t train or prepare enough.  Honestly, enough!

I am over the negativity and while I obviously can’t boycott newspapers, it has certainly soured my Olympic experience.  It’s a lot different to Sydney 2000, which I still say was one of the best few months of my life.  Everyone in Australia pulled together and we were show cased globally as a great country and Sydney one of the most fabulous cities in the world.  How quickly it has changed.

To our Olympians, congratulations on being chosen.  Congratulations on representing our great country and congratulations on being the athletes you are.