Team GB golfer Charley Hull has said the Olympic ban on smoking may harm her chances as cigarettes help her relax after her ADHD diagnosis last year. The Telegraph has more.
Charley Hull has been banned from smoking while playing in the Olympic tournament here at Le Golf National and the Englishwoman fears it might hamper her chance of gold.
Hull went viral on the internet recently when she was pictured with a cigarette hanging from her mouth as she signed autographs for fans at the U.S. Women’s Open. The 28-year-old laughed off the exposure, saying “everyone in my family smokes – my dad goes through 40 a day”.
Hull, who describes herself as a “gym freak”, is supremely fit, but believes that puffing away helps after being diagnosed last year with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the world No. 11, will not be able to rely on tobacco relief for the 72-hole event that starts on Wednesday.
“Yeah, I do smoke on the course, it’s just something I do,” Hull said. “It’s a habit but I won’t do this week.” When asked why, she replied: “I don’t think you’re allowed.”
And Hull seriously does believe it will affect her as she tries to replicate Justin Rose’s gold in 2016 and Tommy Fleetwood’s silver on Sunday. “Yeah, I think it will,” Hull said. “Because it relaxes me a little bit. But it is what it is.”
The Paris organisers have been asked for comment, but insiders said that nobody was allowed to smoke on Olympic sites – including fans.
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One small mercy here in England is that the fine old art of taking the piss hasn’t completely died out yet. It’s the only thing we have left. Orwell remarked in the 1940s that jackbooted fascism would never take hold in England because people would just laugh at it. I think that still holds true.
But Starmer and his cadre are certainly giving it a go
80%of British people queued up to be jabbed. WHO was taking the pee out of who?
Okay, let’s just use “kraut” and leave it at that. I’m happy being called a “rosbif” by the French.
Same problem. Germans must not claim that they have an existence decoupled from administrative acts of the FRG authorities as this would imply that people who are not German also exist and while many of these people who are not German would very much insist that they’re not German, Germans themselves mustn’t claim this.
The Germans have no access to alternative media and are totally propagandised and have been for at least 40 years.
Finally the young have realised they have no chance and are looking to AFD to change their world and their dopey parents and grandparents are just following ze orders.
Japan and Germany can you imagine what they could’ve been. Even the cleverest countries have succumbed to dumbing down in the last few decades. What is this malign force exactly it has so many in its grasp.
Control the words and you control the mind.
I had no idea Germany had ritualised brainwashing.
The German language lends itself particularly to this type of thought control. It really helped a certain Austrian.
Come off it. Don’t you know their history (hint: 1930 – 1945).
That would be 1933 and around that time, fascist regimes existed (probably not an exhaustive list) at least in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Spain, making this a pretty normal phenomenon. But only small subset of these had so-called “antifascist laws” by them Anglo-Russo-Americo-Saxons force installed onto them of which events like the one described in the article are a direct consequence.
That’s your system and not ours.
Liberal Fascism was alive and well under Roosevelt and Wilson before him.
German industry is interesting. Excellence in a few particular fields without any venture into other fields that you might expect from an industrial power. This is not an accident and it is key to understanding the situation. They gained a lot from being the Yank’s well- fed donkey. Now they get a taste of what their masters really thought of them. Blow up your pipelines, make you miserable, cold and unemployed. With the Anglo-Americans it isn’t a matter of if they will betray you it is always a matter of when.
It’s quite astonishing.
No doubt that good old Uncle Sam shafted Germany – and the EU – by blowing up Nordstream.
So we all buy ultra expensive LPG from – guess who?
That said the EU and us, buy Russian Gas/oil from, er India, – but that ‘s OK.
What a fucking world
Another word the ‘lefties’ frequently use is Deutschtürke to denote someone with a German passport who wouldn’t ever dream of denouncing his roots of being ethnically Turkish¹. In the past, I’ve asked if, provided that German-Turks (Deutschtürken) exist, there are perhaps also German-Germans (Deutschdeutsche) and Turk-Turks (Türktürken) but never got a reply.
The reality is – of course – that the German ruling caste passionately hates Germans and would love nothing better than to wipe them off the face of the earth as this would be the ultimate proof that they’re really not Germans, that is, Nazis, themselves. And that’s despite the German basic law still refers to the ius sanguinis codified during the German empire and that attempts to define ethnic Germans out of existence only started when Gerhard Schröder became chancellor for the first time (1998).
¹ At least a very large minority of these people actually wouldn’t ever dream of referring to themselves as German. They’re using the Turkish word for German, alman, to peioratively denote Germans as something entirely different from their much more worthy community.