Yesterday Paula Radcliffe ,stopped 4 miles from the line in the London marathon to take a piss in the gutter,,,, should the dirty cow be fined ?

no :)

Yes she bloody should be!

I know loads of people who were caught pissing down alleyways, when drunk, by the Police and were subsequently fined for "urinating in a public place". It shouldn't be any different for her.

er.. no. There are a few people saying that it was some kind of disgrace that she did that, that it was in some way unprofessional. I'd imagine these same people have never even run half-marathon lengths in their lifetime - do they have any idea how much liquid you need to drink before the get-go? If you dont need to urinate that's a sign you might be dehydrating, which is the last thing you want.

I've been hard on Radcliffe before when she quit the Olympic marathon - but in this case I cant argue with what she did. She was getting stomach cramps because of a full bladder and she was losing time because of it - so she had to relieve herself, in front of the whole world on TV. Now thats a winning spirit!

She went to the loo in public and it was shown on national TV?????

surely not?

Weren't there something like 950 toilets along the marathon course though?

I didn't see the episode for myself - were TV viewers treated to the gory details or did the BBC abruptly cut away once they realised what she was doing?

Apparently she went behind an advertising hoarding, out of sight. :)

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/4454315.stm

Radcliffe shrugs off toilet break

London Marathon winner Paula Radcliffe has described her decision to answer a call of nature during the race as "an embarrassing necessity".

Radcliffe had to squat by the side of the road at the 22-mile mark after her stomach reacted to her pre-race meal.

"When I'm racing I'm totally focused on winning the race and running as fast as possible," she told the BBC.

"I was losing time because I was having stomach cramps and I thought 'I just need to go and I'll be fine'."

Radcliffe took control of the race after seven miles and went on to win her third London and fifth major international marathon title.

Her time of two hours 17 minutes 42 seconds was the third fastest ever, and a world record for a women's-only race.

But the world record holder's unscheduled stop briefly evoked memories of the Athens Olympics, when she dropped out of the race.

"This was just needing to go and once I had gone I was fine," said Radcliffe, who beat second-placed Romanian Constantina Tomescu-Dita by more than five minutes.

"I wasn't worried about it in terms of a repeat from Athens."

She added: "I want to apologise to the nation. I didn't really want to resort to that in front of hundreds of thousands of people.

"I started feeling it between 15 and 16 miles and probably carried on too long before stopping."

Radcliffe's next major target will be the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in August.

But she has yet to decide whether to focus her efforts on the marathon or the 10,000m.

"I would like to win both, so there is a difficult decision there," she said.

"I'd like to win a world championship on the track and I would like to win a world championship marathon."

Meanwhile, the organisers of the five big city marathons are discussing the creation of a "grand slam" format.

The concept could involve paying a special bonus to any athlete who wins all of the London, New York City, Boston, Chicago and Berlin races.

"We see the benefit some of the major sports organisations have derived from being much more than single events," said New York City Marathon director Mary Wittenberg.

She isn't going to become Dame Paula Radcliffe if she keeps pissing in the streets.........

no, she'll prolly become prince harrys new squeeze ;)

lol!
of course she should be fined, i dont believe that runners are exempt from the law.

If you're in the middle of the marathon and desperate for the loo than she needed to go and I don't see the fuss about it. What happened with the cameras when she did anyway?

if I was her I would have pissed while still running, no one would notice it, they would think it was sweat. :lol:

Yes sweat, a sudden surge of yellowish -like sweat gushing down her legs and into her shoes. Genius Medo. ;) :lol:

when you have got to go you have got to go, I just hope this doesn't encourage every matharan runner to do the same, otherwise London will be the big stink on marathan day.

a large percentage of marathon runners are sick afterwards including the woman who finished second.

*999*

OAP: Help! police! emergency!
Operator: Dont panic somebody will be right over

*20 minutes later*

Policeman: *knock knock*
OAP: Thank goodness you came
Policeman: Okay, calm down, can you tell me what happened?

http://www.cacfoa.org.uk/badges/oap.JPG

OAP: I was sat in my chair eating cake and Earl Grey while watching the London marathon and suddenly some young lady went to the side of the road and did a wee wee!
I was so shocked I dropped my cake down my cleavage...

Policeman: Its a disgrace madam. I think an ASBO is in order. Live on BBC one during the afternoon? What is the country coming too? :(

is that for real?

if any of you were watching the paralympic coverage from athens last yr a british male middle distance runner i think finished then promptly weed himself down his leg on the track...infront of the worlds press and also bbc cameras didnt pan out they kept the close up...but its not unusual. many of the elite athletes let it loose during races i am just glad that paula was british enough to do it discreetly....do we know for sure it was a wee...not a poo poo?

oh and extreeme physical activity induces vomiting...can be anything from 100m to marathon...i have vommed after 400m races...never vommed in a 10 k tho...we shall see what happens next yr if i manage to get me a place in london.

Well this is the first i've heard of pissing during a race. I've done alot of cross country racing and have felt sick after but never been sick, normally have a mars bar and feel better. She should have gone for a piss befour the race I bet everybody else did.

Dirty fucking bitch.

Well...

...I can't think of anything witty about someone doing their business in a race. Meh. Ah well, everyone's had a piss in the street...

...I did it in Carol Vorderman's mouth...

...maybe I shouldn't have said that.

i have never vomited after running, i have however lost control of my legs due to oxygen starvation and been literally unable to use them for the next ten mins.

Well...

...I can't think of anything witty about someone doing their business in a race. Meh. Ah well, everyone's had a piss in the street...

...I did it in Carol Vorderman's mouth...



You haven't been on the Lou Reed pills have you Mr Flinch?

No...well...I don't think so. It's not viagra is it? I stole those...

^I apologize for that and promise not to leave Dave bored on his own anymore.

Well, I might sever my own hand off - I'm in one of those kinda moods concerning what I've got to do today.

Oh what fun and rapture it is to listen to a bloke talk bollocks about philosophy.

hooray for barry

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Must remember to not do this to anyone today...