Who does Lizzie Yarnold remind me of???

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It’s driving me bonkers, who does she remind me of?? It’s how she speaks and her mannerisms. My whole Winter Olympics viewing is being disturbed by this!!!

I don't know, but can I just shout LIZZIE YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME!

Well done x 1000.

Emily from Friends?

She reminds me of my sil😀

She's a bit Molly Ringwald.

Her voice is like Katie Hopkins!

And sorry for the misspelling of Lizzy, Lizzy.

because I know you're reading this, right?

Jamie Oliver.

Fiona Phillips maybe?

She reminds you of A WINNER

KATIE HOPKINS VOICE THATS IT!

Thank you!!!

But obviously totally different people and she is a totally amazing winner!

Oh no what an association!!!!!

But - still awesome.

Another point though - what an awkward name combo! Say it and in most accents you'd have no way of knowing that she's 'Lizzy Yarnold' as opposed to the perhaps more common 'Lizzie Arnold'. Must be irritating!

Our old next door neighbour! Absolute spit!

(That is probably not who you were thinking of though.))

I think she’s refreshing. She tweeted ‘I just won the Olympics AGAIN!’ Or something like that and I saw that someone had responded ‘humble...’ which made me so mad. Why should she be humble able throwing herself down a scary ice thingy at a million miles an hour head first on a tea tray? It’s amazing, she’s brilliant. And I like to see how much she enjoyed it all. for her. This girl can!

Able = about. Damn autocorrect.

She's really full of life, and very resilient. Her ear/balance problems must make it very hard for her. I think she has a really good attitude, which when you're doing a sport where hundredths of seconds mean the difference between medals or low down the board is essential - you have to accept the concept of 'bad day at the track' and get on with life.

I know it is probably wrong to speculate (and I know nothing about sport) but I worry a bit for the young woman who does the short track speed skating, she seems to find the pressure to win and dealing with failure too much to handle. I really hope she is fit enough to have a go in the next event and does well.

Fizzy, despite cheering her on in 2014 and in the last week, DH still though she was called Lizzy Arnold! I guess maybe her folks didn't think of that when they called her Elizabeth Yarnold.

Bridget Jones!

Lizzy is amazing. What a brilliant role model.

Well I thought she reminded me of Anna Maxwell Martin, but looking at pics of them side by side they are quite different....

Lizzie Yarnold, you are a true winner , unassuming and a brilliant representative for our country . Respect!
Kurri ,I share your worries about our track athlete .To be fit enough to compete at this level, you have to be mentally fit enough to cope with problems and adverse results and this young lady simply doesn't seem to be .I felt so sorry for our medal winners , as every announcement was followed by more statements about our sobbing track athlete , totally taking away the winners five minutes of hard earned fame

Emma Thompson?

My very, very tenuous claim is that Lizzy Yarnold went to my old school and was Head Girl - however I had left the school and was already working in the year she was born!
An amazing feat to be a double gold medallist - well done to her and to Laura Deas too. I could not go down a slope very fast, head first on a tray or backwards either.

Hoping with every hope that Christie gets a medal of some description in her last event. I hate to think of the state she must be in. All these close ups of her sobbing face, all this horrible trolling comments on the Fail etc comments sections. People are forgetting she's a multiple World Champion.

Hester - apologies if mypost cameover as critical of Elise Christie. I understand that of course the diappointment of not achieving your dream after four years training must be immense, and of course she is a wonderful accomplished athlete who should be incredibly proud of her achievements. I think it is awful if people have been saying nasty things about her in the Fail.

I suppose i just think that more perhaps than any other sport the speed skating is on an edge of crashies all the time - there seem to be falls every race that take out several athletes, they skate so fast and so close that catching your blade on someone else's must be a likely event.
There seem to be a high level of 'unluckiness' involved which causes people to lose a race and if that levelo f chance is involved then I think you need to be of a very pragmatic nature to accept that sometimes it may all go wrong.

I really hope she does well - I would love to see her get a medal and will be cheering her on from my armchair

Alice - from the Vicar of Dibly.

I do feel a bit sorry for the lady who got the bronze. on any other day she would have been front page news but has been given a bit more of a backseat now.

Elise Christie - my heart absolutely goes out to her. one of my DC is an athlete and honestly every time something like this happens I just think of all the time and effort I know these people put into their sport - not the on telly stuff but the hours and hours of cold and wet training and the things that they give up.

Athletes have to have the ability/arrogance to move on and move on quickly when something goes wrong. but its tough to keep on keeping on when it just happens to you over and over again. they have to be uber resilient to be successful. Honestly, I hope I am wrong but just not sure its going to be her year.

Kurri, no I didn't think that at all! I was referring to all the bullshit being spouted about her in the likes of the Fail and on the BBC's HYS comments section. It's so mean. Remember in 2014 her interview when she said in a wobbly voice that she'd had horrible comments about her on Twitter - she sounded so close to tears.

You just sounded concerned :) I hope she knows that far more people are cheering her on, but in a way that could be putting even more pressure on her. It's a tricky one.