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

I've been personally shocked recently by several women I know who have kids and grandkids, who have defended a paedo because they are friends with his partner. It's all just come out recently and the excuses I've heard! "Men will be men" etc I've stopped talking to them over it. How can any

Ooops. How can anyone, but especially a woman and a mum, ever be anything but utterly disgusted and horrified by a paedophile?

It's depressingly common. I no longer expect people to act on their self declared principles if they've actually got something to lose by doing so.

Claiming principles is cheap. Acting on them not so much.

Do many rich women act as surrogates for men they don't know? No, it's only ever poor women who need the money who do this.

Anyway it's the child being trafficked (who has no say) not so much the woman.

@AlphaBravoGamma also, Loughborough University - hardly Ivy League is it now really! Sorry if that offends your "friend".

I mean I can speak 2 foreign languages. Didn't realise that entitled me to a (bullshit) degree! I must look into that!

And somewhat angry 😂😂

How utterly vile. Paula Radcliffe has shown her true colours as a pedophile defender.

It makes me wonder how she's brought up her child and who she's had her child around.

She's not fit in my opinion to be a mother or in the public eye in any form.

Disgusting human that she is!

Bully for you being able to speak two languages. I can speak four which makes me twice as clever as you - and I didn't even study any of them at uni, hooray for me! 🤣🤣🤣

Speaking foreign languages is just something I picked up alongside my ACTUAL career! Which I guarantee you requires more than a degree from a former poly!

India knight the times columnist being another, wrote an article saying she’d leave her partner (a former MP) if he was a racist but when he was convicted of downloading child abuse images, that was fine.

paula is vile.

Loughborough is ranked among the top 10 UK universities...

'She has that arrogant thing that a lot of sportspeople and celebs have. Where they think they have the right to commentate on matters far above their paygrade'

Radcliffe is an idiot but I find this such a boring argument.

Sportspeople and celebs, like any of us, have the right to talk about any topic we fancy. Are plumbers only allowed talk about plumbing, IT programmers only allowed talk about software?

Well it is actually illegal to pay someone to act as a surrogate in this country (UK) so you do get women doing it for altruistic reasons. The child is biologically linked to the dad and often not even linked to the surrogate due to egg donors. I think I will agree to disagree as I honestly do not see how this is trafficking.

Wow. I had respect for her.

I’m hoping he won’t be allowed on the boat tonight.

And it's not a former Poly either, but hey, what do we know? 🤣🤣🤣

It started in 1909 as Loughborough Technical Institute, shortly thereafter being renamed Loughborough College. After the 2nd World War it was divided into four colleges - Loughborough Training College (teacher training), Loughborough College of Art (art and design), Loughborough College of Further Education (technical and vocational) and Loughborough College of Technology (technology and science). In 1958 it gained the title of College of Advanced Technology.

In 1966 it received a charter as a university. So while never called a polytechnic, it was a technical institute.

As to languages, I would be interested to know what CEFR level students attained in languages on the Modern European Studies degree at Loughborough (which no longer exists). For comparison, a graduate with a BA in MFL should have attained a level C1 at least.

It became a university in the 1960s, along with the likes of Lancaster, Warwick and York, rather than a former polytechnic turned into a university in the 1990s.

I don't know about CEFR levels which weren't brought in until the 2000s, but the entrance requirements in the 1980s were one or two modern languages at A level, and then this/these languages were studied academically for 3 years alongside politics and economics with an optional year in Europe for 1 language or half a year each for both. I do know that my friend had novels in both languages that she read in the holidays

i speak more than one language. I'm like some kind of superbrain.

Don't be twatty about people's degrees. There is a quality control for degrees that all unis sign up to.

Well she can fuck right off then.

Hi everyone, I've just seen that the BBC is continuing to allow Paula onto programmes to commentate. It's almost as if the Huw Edwards scandal has completely bypassed them! You'd think they'd be moving away from featuring sex offenders and their apologists on their programme!