Category — United Kingdom

Model Jordan a.k.a Katie Price a.k.a Katrina Alexandra Infield wants to compete in the Olympics but some meanies are making fun of her Olympic dreams. Back off, people, back off. If she wants to compete in the Olympics then she can compete in the Olympics. Can’t a girl dream big anymore?

PHOTO SOURCE: Anorak

Nice hat, Andrew. But do you really abuse your horses with your spiked boots? From the Associated Press:

Three-time Olympic equestrian gold medalist Andrew Hoy appeared at hearing Thursday to answer accusations of horse abuse.

Hoy and Dutch eventer Madeleine Brugman, who he trains, appeared before a three-member panel from the sport’s governing body. Both deny the charges, and the hearing will resume next week.

Brugman is accused of wearing spiked boots when riding Sundancer 6 in the warmup to the show jumping phase of a three-day event at Barroca d’Alva, Portugal, in March.

Hoy has competed for Australia at the last six Olympics. He won team eventing gold at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Games and won the individual three-day event silver in 2000.

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She’s the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth and the reigning eventing world champion. She is some kind of a model too.
Zara was recently named to the British equestrian team going to the Beijing Olympic Games.

She will be following the footsteps of her father, Mark Phillips, who won the gold medal at the three-day event in the 1972 Munich Olympics, and her mother, Princess Anne, who competed at the 1976 Montreal Games.

PHOTO SOURCES: blogs.ya.com and AFP.

Briton Amir Khan is apparently looking for a trainer after he split with Oliver Harrison. Amir won the silver medal (lightweight division) during the 2004 Athens Olympiad. He turned professional in 2005.

Photo source: Skysports

Here’s a pretty strong — but we must say not unfounded — statement by British athlete Jason Gardener on the drug scandals that has engulfed athletics in recent years.

“If Maurice Greene is proved to be a cheat then, apart from Kim Collins, every winner of the world and Olympic titles I tried to win from 1999 to 2005 will have been shown to be frauds.

It’s so disappointing. You can’t help thinking what might have been. My childhood dreams have been destroyed by cheats time after time.

As a teenager, I remember the build-up to the 1988 Olympic final between Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis in Seoul and Johnson just blew the field away. It was amazing and an inspiration to me.

Then it came out that he had failed a dope test. I can remember him saying that everyone was on drugs and the outcry in the sport. Now when I look back at that 100m final, with all the people with a question-mark beside their names, he was right, wasn’t he?

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