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0:00 Introduction: Joasia Zakrzewskiis all over the news today
0:30 Summary of the story and the problem
1:10 The story gathered speed because it’s so “clickbaitable”
1:45 Are we finished writing about mental health?
2:20 Where are the people that should be supporting her, British or UK athletics?
3:10 Lack of experience at UK/British Athletics
3:55 IAU is a business that wouldn’t have lasted 12 months in any other arena
4:50 The unreasonable requests of selectors because they don’t understand the sport
5:36 Athletics is not a meritocracy, your face had better fit
6:12 Why not write about the 50km World Championships in India, and how the Great Britain team needed to do their own crowdfunding to afford to travel there?
6:28 Why are India hosting the World Championships?
7:25 UKA or GB Athletics are not interested in performance – instead they want the management to look competent to keep themselves in jobs
8:40 How does this relate to Jo’s story?
9:38 Old school, old boys club. Why is managing this circus?
Again today, all over the media and running press, is Joasia Zakrzewski .
Joasia Zakrzewski is a serious competitive athlete who's competed for Great Britain and Scotland many times and excelled in ultra distances from 50km to 48 hours, recently breaking the world record for 48 hours.
She's also a doctor and has coached or managed the Great Britain team when I've been part of it.
In April, during a 50-mile race, she made a mistake that she instantly regretted. She dropped out injured from a race, got into a car and later was persuaded to continue, which is obviously a form of clear cheating. Despite her competitive nature, this is in no way a representation of her real character or the person she has been to me.
In these situations, the media is brutal, and the running media have also jumped on board—it's a very "clickbaitable" story. The irony is for me that every second sporting article for the last few years has been about raising awareness to mental health, yet we are so quick to throw someone under a bus with no obvious route to redemption.
So who is Jo? Who is she to me and what kind of person is she really?
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