{"id":8814,"date":"2010-07-21T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biestmilch.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:33:48","slug":"the-phenomenon-chrissie-wellington-or-the-burning-of-the-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/the-phenomenon-chrissie-wellington-or-the-burning-of-the-witches\/","title":{"rendered":"The phenomenon Chrissie Wellington or the burning of the witches"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is amazing and up to certain extent barefaced what is going on around Chrissie after her impressing performance in Roth at the Challenge race on the weekend. Obviously, she has developed into a threat for men and women. Therefore the comments and articles around her person are so extremely emotional, be it positive or negative. They range from the new super dope that may be on the market to the assumption (we get this debate every year after the race in Roth) that the course in Roth is just too short. There are those women and some men at their side who are suspicious, jealous and blame Chrissie. These women feel fleeced, and unable to appreciate an extraordinary talent. And there are the men who are awestruck and bend in front of a women who is on eye-level with them.<\/p>\n

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Why should she not compare her performance with the men’s? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I have and I still experience this attitude from women and men all my life through, not in public, because my job is different, but I know the feeling, and understand Chrissie’s approach to racing. I understand that she wants to compare her performance with men. Women in other fields of our male-dominated society have to do this every day. For some reason there are only few women in leading positions on this globe, and this is not due to incapability. In sport the sexes have always been split, so collisions did not occur. Now with Chrissie, the sport is confronted with this conflict constellation and is not at all prepared for it. Triathlon where women and men are racing the very same race fosters this development. One must be very ignorant not having expected something like this happening one day.<\/p>\n

Why can’t we accept a super talented person<\/strong><\/p>\n

You athletes out there, did you ever take into consideration that there are humans (and I am not talking about men or women, I mean humans) who are even much more gifted than those who are above average, so that the rift between them and us becomes immense. If you think of mathematicians or musicians it may be easier for you to understand or accept that fact. It’s of course easier to accept those ones with their excellency you don’t feel threatened by. It is definitely not fun to race as a woman having Chrissie in the field, knowing not standing a chance only to come close to her (not to forget the 5% rule of WTC). Nevertheless this does not justify condemnation.<\/p>\n

Why do we have to blame her of using illegal means? If we go back in history whether it is in art or in science you find many examples for super talents, talents that have changed the world, and have been condemned to death or died forgotten and in poverty. And we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is amazing and up to certain extent barefaced what is going on around Chrissie after her impressing performance in Roth at the Challenge race on the weekend. Obviously, she has developed into a threat for men and women. Therefore the comments and articles around her person are so extremely emotional, be it positive or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2291],"tags":[1439,304,1795,786,1444,86,2269,425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}