And Jan Moir of the [iFail[/i has actually penned a column that includes the comment, of the women's road race, that it was won by "some bitch from Holland".

A completely irrational comment especially as I think, I think, that Liz Armitstead races for a Dutch team, or at least spends an awful lot of time in Holland.

Anyway, theres a proper journalist interview and personal background piece here that makes for nicer reading ... rlhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/cycling/9436277/London-2012-Olympics-Lizzie-Armitsteads-silver-in-the-road-race-inspired-Britains-hopes-and-cheers.htmlrl


PS - her training hill would be the back road out of Otley up onto the Chevin, the bitch, I've never been able to ride up that bas'tad of a hill even in my younger years its always been a get-off-and-push moment

The Daily Fail have pulled the story you quote in your link.

Luckily, you can still read it from here; rlhttps://www.freezepage.com/1343493744VDGIBPHPUWrl

It'll be a sad day when the Daily Mail realises that everything contentious gets copied by someone, somewhere just in case they pull the original.

Given that for much of the 1930s they supported Oswald Mosley and his blackshirts and found much to be admired in Herr Hitler, do you seriously expect that happening anytime soon? Communications technology and the way we receive our news may have moved on, the arrogance and editorial style of the Wail has remained pretty stable

It was pulled just after I tried to add my comment, don't know whether there was a correlation though. I laid in to the author, the editor and propreitors. I think they were starting to get the message though by that stage!

Did you threaten to stop putting links to their web stories on this site?

I thought the Daily Mirror did too? No one ever mentions that though.

It did, once, on Monday 22 January 1934, in an editorial written by that champion of the extreme left-wing, Viscount Rothermere

We've now had the badminton cheats, playing to lose to get a better draw.

Although according to the drama on BBC1 last week, Dr Who did something similar in 1948

Is that really cheating though? Surely that is tactics, the aim is to win a gold medal.

they haven't been accused of cheating, they have been accused of not playing their best, it's the equivalent of match fixing, it just so happens that both teams were trying to fix the same outcome. I expect both teams to be disqualified (if they haven't by the time I finish typing this!)

I was responding to

Bradley Wiggins was born in Belgium of an Aussie Dad and an English Mum.
Just wait until the Wail realises that.