Emma McKeon & Brittany Elmslie? Who? How about Bronte & Cate Campbell?….Ahhhh….you mean the Womens 4 x 100m freestyle Olympic Champions and World Record holders. Of course you do.
Press coverage would have you believe that the relay win was only down to the siblings, forgetting the basic requirement of a 4 x 100m relay is that 4 people are needed.
Newspaper/website headlines around Australia proudly boasted about the Campbell sisters gold.
Channel 7 were furiously trying to fluff the early days of coverage full of the winning family.
But when it came to Emma McKeon & Brittany Elmslie, it seemed that their moment was gone in a flash after the medal went around the neck. Treated like the red headed step children of Olympic winners.
Has there been a quicker disappearance into forgotten Olympic crap fantale?
They even spent more time on the Campbell sister’s mother than Emma McKeon & Brittany Elmslie.
Campbell being the Jarryd Hayne of swimming.
Can you be surprised though? The LCD that is commercial sports coverage, and the woeful bias of News Ltd media.
If you are one of the four people who have followed The Gurgler’s coverage of the Olympics, you’ll know about our Forgotten Olympians stories.
We celebrate the forgotten like no other, and pre Rio 2016 had assembled a fine array of forgotten olympians from days of yore. We certainly did not expect to have two Olympians who won gold who were forgotten within hours of the win.
Normally we don’t allow gold medal winners to become forgotten Olympians. But in this situation where the gold medalists were forgotten just hours after their big moment.
So let’s remember Emma McKeon & Brittany Elmslie before the gloss wears off their relay win, and they are consigned to the dustbin of forgotten Olympians.
If you wanted to catch up on our previous Forgotten Olympians, why not catch up and read our 10 nominations.
Martin Vinnicombe – Mmmmedal Winner
Jumpin’ Jai Taurima
Glen Housman
Darren Clark
Jarryd Hayne
Dean Capobianco
Gary Niewand
Loudy Tourky
2004 Baseball Team
Alex Watson
Or vote in the Greatest Australian Forgotten Olympian poll.
