If you're taking a drug that naturally forms only in pregnant cats, which when used on humans is known to make them not only much stronger, but more masculine, the least you could do is make sure your hair-style doesn't look like bad mens cut from the 80s. At least make it a good mens cut from the 80s. And as much as there are people saying the cheating Belarussian shot-putter just demoted from the Olympic gold in favour of our own Valerie Adams shouldn't be ridiculed for her looks, just her actions, Nadzeya Ostapchuk did herself no favours.
Nadzeya Ostapchuk
To be blunt, jokes about Val having to compete against Welsh rugby players and the kid from Two And A Half Men are not nearly as bad as blatantly cheating on the world's biggest stage, the Olympics. Plus she genuinely does look like the kid from Two And A Half Men, thanks in part to the self-incurred changes in her body from being a drug cheat. From that angle, she should be ridiculed for her looks because they are something she helped create through unethical means, not something she was born with. Val might be a big girl, but her femininity has never and will never be questioned.
Nor should her patriotism. Valerie Adams is someone who wears her heart on her sleeve and while that might occasionally rub people the wrong way, she should be lauded for not just her extraordinary success in her sport, but her devotion to her country. What was one of the first things she said after finding out she'd been upgraded from the silver medal to gold? That she couldn't wait to sing the national anthem and watch the New Zealand flag rise.
Good on you Val, well deserved and can't wait to see you do it again in Rio in four years time. Let's make sure they fill the form out properly next time too. Here is a song Steve Winwood has just written about Val's gold medal, a song simply entitled Valerie.*
*This song wasn't actually written about Valerie Adams, though was a massive hit in the 80s. Younger audiences might know it better in its sampled form as the dance hit Call On Me by Eric Prydz.
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