Paula Radcliffe wishes "good luck" in Olympics to man who raped 12 year old girl

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I think the title of my thread says it all.

BBC pundit Paula Radcliffe wishes Dutch volleyball player who was jailed for raping a 12-year-old 'the best of luck' at the Paris Olympics... and rejects claims he should not compete | Daily Mail Online

Sometimes we come across people we don't know, who are planning to do something good, and wish them well in their endeavours. It doesn't mean that much.

In any case, she was wishing him good luck in the Olympics, not in assaulting anyone, let alone a child. She is a mother herself.

I am not sticking up for the paedophile but for Paula Radcliffe.

The Daily Mail is not to be trusted one bit with reporting. They take things out of context and blow them up. It wouldn't surprise me if they had done that with this.

I sat watching her with mouth agape.

The woman now not competing because of whipping a horse (do not agree with it at all), but then a child rapist is OK to continue? Batshit

Sometimes we come across people we don't know
She knows what he did.

Watch the interview.

I could never understand why people thought her behaviour was acceptable, a drunk would get arrested if they were witnessed doing what she did. Dirty woman who obviously has low standards and thinks we are all the same.

How disappointing. Her view may hold weight if he was a thief. He’s a paedophile and shouldn’t be representing his country.

I fee a bit sorry for her. She was clearly fumbling for words and said stuff she hadn't considered carefully.

Unbelievable that a child rapist is allowed to compete, but elsewhere a gymnast is withdrawn for smoking.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna162666

Strange world.

no i know but they are pushing the line that he has served his sentence. Which he clearly hasn't since the judge believed that part of that sentence was the loss of his sporting/olympic career.

I want that info out there and i want to know the justification for letting him back in. And i want judges to be told that assumptions like "it will hurt his career" nearly NEVER applies to men who attack, rape or kill women.

Is she related to Daniel Radcliffe? It would make sense if so, with her complete disregard for women and girls.

The interview was on LBC. It's still available on the website.

As a PP says, watch it.

@LBFseBrom Are you the type of political pugilist/tribalist that won't believe anything just because it's on a site that hosts people that have different political views than you? Please grow up and stop being so narrow-minded. There is a fricking VIDEO of her actually saying this. That the DM, or the Telegraph or the BBC or the channel for the flying spaghetti monster covered it, is totally irrelevant. You're just shooting the messenger because you're bigoted. It is all on video. FFS.

True, unfortunately.

@Cookiecoop H from Steps is on the list for the same reason Tom Daley is. They hire women's bodies to use as baby factories. Then they buy the baby. People trafficking basically.

I used to love Fern back in the day. I bought a load of Ryvitas and followed her dieting advice in Good Housekeeping. Then it turned out she's lost weight cos she'd had a gastric band. Then she sneered at her fans who felt rightly a little misled.

Her mask slipped basically.

No I'm not confusing the two Ian Watkins.

The LostProphets one is so unutterably vile that I don't need to even have him on my list because he's just in a league of his own.

Wikipedia tells me she has a degree in "Modern European Studies" from Loughborough University.

Sounds like a bullshit degree to me.

Actually, it's not. A close friend has this very degree from the same university, which involved studying two modern languages and an awful lot of hard work.

Don't let your anger at Paula Radcliffe let down your argument by denigrating her degree subject, you're making yourself look a fool

I wouldn’t say it is people trafficking if the women genuinely want to help gay men have biological children.

If you think women give their babies away for totally altruistic reasons and there's no exploitation at all going on, you haven't a clue.

It isn’t always their biological baby. Some surrogates are carrying children created by egg donors and IVF.

Not the women producing babies for gay men. You can't get eggs from men, oddly enough. Not even ones who identify as women.

Hilarious. Not. The men buy the donor egg from a clinic. The same way my wife and I bought donor sperm from a clinic, oddly enough women can’t produce sperm. Even the ones who identify as men.

If anyone knows anything about this rape of a 12 year old girl, they will know that Steven Van de Velde has not one ounce of shame for what he did. In fact, quite the opposite. I cannot believe she said anything about him at all. We are so so quick to sweep mens abhorrent behaviour under the rug.