Rosanna Davison denies mini marathon cheat claims

micropig

CatFromHue wrote: »

Has anyone ever tried to run against the volume of women in the mini marathon once it gets going? I'd bet it's incredible difficult if not near impossible!

Myself and a few mates tried crossing the mini marathon in Ballsbridge once as well we needed to get to the other side of the road. It was unpleasant for all involved!

No problem for Carmel. She's able to run against the crowd and find Rosanna in record time.

BornToKill

its always been one of the great mysteries to me how a relation of Chris de Burgh won a beauty contest.

stovelid

Gaz wrote: »

Give a f**k ?

Given the merest whiff of a chance: yes.

CageWager

micropig wrote: »

Chris DeBurghs' Daughter;)

never heard of him

stovelid

CageWager wrote: »

never heard of him

Yes you have.

robinph

BornToKill wrote: »

its always been one of the great mysteries to me how a relation of Chris de Burgh won a beauty contest.

Liv Tyler and her old man is another similar mystery.

Spread

Is this the gal that gives advice re affairs contrary to what she said after her da was guilty of slipping one into blonde hair/blue jeans?
I think we should be told!

Welsh Megaman

kincsem wrote: »

Lady in red face. :pac:

Missing You (at the starting line)

micropig

Spread wrote: »

Is this the gal that gives advice re affairs contrary to what she said after her da was guilty of slipping one into blonde hair/blue jeans?
I think we should be told!

De Burgh has pursued and won 16 defamation actions.[6] The Irish Independent said he has always been a bit prickly about criticism. Peter Crawley, a theatre reviewer at The Irish Times, found this out the hard way when he wrote a less than sympathetic review of de Burgh's show in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre in September 2009. Crawley noted: "He departs the stage for 'Lady in Red', invading boxes and draping himself over audience members ... Certain toes will never uncurl after this experience, but it is almost admirable how unaltered de Burgh has remained by the flow of time." In a lengthy, much-publicised reply to the critic, de Burgh made his feelings known, particularly in the postscript:-
"We were wondering by way of explanation and, as you seem to portray yourself as a bitter and unfulfilled man, were you much teased by your school chums in the schoolyard and called 'Creepy Crawley'?" De Burgh wrote.[7]


Just sayin':pac::pac:

Scioch

lizt wrote: »

Changed now, pissed off at myself now because I hate when people call it a marathon.

Isnt it just like calling a mini snickers a snickers ? Yes its not a regular full sized snickers but its still a flippin snickers.

Who really cares ffs ?

St.Spodo

flutterflye wrote: »

I've no idea who Rosanna Davidson is.
I'm not bothered enough to google her.
But why do people care about these things?
I really do not get it.
So effing what if someone cheated in a mini marathon?!

She's in most newspapers all the time, and has been for years. I am astonished that you haven't heard of her. Skeptical even.

Sea Filly

phasers wrote: »

This makes no sense...

It really, really doesn't. She wouldn't stand to interrogation very well!

Shryke

Can everyone stop talking about chocolate bars. I didn't even want one a few minutes ago. There's a cream egg in the press and i've done very well not to eat it yet.

Sea Filly

mikemac1 wrote: »

She is an ambassador for the charity
The photos were take before the race



The ISPCA booked a block of numbers and put them all in the name of one of their officers.
If one of their runners needed a number they get one of these
If ten or twenty or whatever number of people in your office were running it then your office could have block booked a set of numbers too



What a non-story spun out of nothing

Why didn't Rosanna just explain that? Would have cleared up the confusion.

tomred1

No one has explained how the 43mins was achieved.
Here what i think happen.
The ISPCA woman started the race and then took a shortcut to Rosanna on Leeson st. Gave her the number and when Rosanna crossed the line, the 43 mins were registered.

flutterflye

St.Spodo wrote: »

She's in most newspapers all the time, and has been for years. I am astonished that you haven't heard of her. Skeptical even.

I don't buy newspapers either!
I've heard the name before I think - but in that kind of background noise way - like it went over my head or something.
Never knew anything about her at all until about an hour ago.
Bit odd that you'd be skeptical - why would I say that otherwise?

Mickey Dazzler

Cheat or no cheat I would still like to be inside her.

shopaholic01

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

Cheat or no cheat I would still like to be inside her.

Would you perform autofellatio after:D




*I do apologise, but everytme i see you post something I feel obliged to post a reply with 'autofellatio'

HeidiHeidi

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Would you perform autofellatio after:D




*I do apologise, but everytme i see you post something I feel obliged to post a reply with 'autofellatio'

Oh please :eek: - some of us are having lunch here - Joe on Da Lahvline is hard enough to stomach without this kind of talk

shopaholic01

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Oh please :eek: - some of us are having lunch here - Joe on Da Lahvline is hard enough to stomach without this kind of talk

You love it really;)

MagicMarker

Shryke wrote: »

Can everyone stop talking about chocolate bars. I didn't even want one a few minutes ago. There's a cream egg in the press and i've done very well not to eat it yet.

A cream egg or a mini cream egg?

robinph

LordSmeg wrote: »

Isnt it just like calling a mini snickers a snickers ? Yes its not a regular full sized snickers but its still a flippin snickers.

Who really cares ffs ?

Nope, it would be like calling a peanut a mini-snickers.

A mini-marathon has nothing to do with a marathon except they are generally running races.

Sea Filly

bluewolf wrote: »

they're grumbling about a 10k people insist on calling a marathon

Well, they call it a mini-marathon, no-one's claiming it's a proper marathon. And for a lot of people, running 10k would be a massive achievement.

Spread

micropig wrote: »

De Burgh has pursued and won 16 defamation actions.[6] The Irish Independent said he has always been a bit prickly about criticism. Peter Crawley, a theatre reviewer at The Irish Times, found this out the hard way when he wrote a less than sympathetic review of de Burgh's show in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre in September 2009. Crawley noted: "He departs the stage for 'Lady in Red', invading boxes and draping himself over audience members ... Certain toes will never uncurl after this experience, but it is almost admirable how unaltered de Burgh has remained by the flow of time." In a lengthy, much-publicised reply to the critic, de Burgh made his feelings known, particularly in the postscript:-
"We were wondering by way of explanation and, as you seem to portray yourself as a bitter and unfulfilled man, were you much teased by your school chums in the schoolyard and called 'Creepy Crawley'?" De Burgh wrote.[7]


Just sayin':pac::pac:

Thank you for that micropig. In future I'll pass my posts by Senior Counsel first
This whole name-calling thing seems to be hereditary ........... AFAIK she called that other glamour model - with the permanently stapled eyebrow - HORSEFACE. It is almost akin to me calling him AN SELF-OBSESSED ADULTEROUS DWARF

Scioch

robinph wrote: »

Nope, it would be like calling a peanut a mini-snickers.

A mini-marathon has nothing to do with a marathon except they are generally running races.

No it wouldnt, calling a peanut a mini snickers would be like calling a runner a mini marathon.

A mini marathon is a shortened version of what everyone knows as a marathon (long distance running event), according to wiki its also called a half marathon. So seeing as "marathon" is in the name of the thing its hardly ridiculous to call it a marathon. Like calling a quick kick around playing soccer, its not actually a game of soccer as defined by the laws and rules of the game but its not really a crime to refer to it as such.

robinph

LordSmeg wrote: »

No it wouldnt, calling a peanut a mini snickers would be like calling a runner a mini marathon.

A mini marathon is a shortened version of what everyone knows as a marathon (long distance running event), according to wiki its also called a half marathon. So seeing as "marathon" is in the name of the thing its hardly ridiculous to call it a marathon. Like calling a quick kick around playing soccer, its not actually a game of soccer as defined by the laws and rules of the game but its not really a crime to refer to it as such.

A marathon is an actual defined distance, a half marathon is unsurprisingly half of that distance. Marathon does not mean long distance running event, it means a running event that is a marathon distance.

A mini-marathon is a random distance and it has no reference to the distance that is a marathon.

lubie76

Beeeatch is lucky I didn't clock her cheating when I was huffing and puffing over the finish line at 1.07 after fighting my way through the walkers in the so called jogging section! Would have been the last straw I tells ya!

stevenmu

CageWager wrote: »

never heard of him

He was a famous rapper who went by the name Ice be Burgh.

Jimoslimos

LordSmeg wrote: »

No it wouldnt, calling a peanut a mini snickers would be like calling a runner a mini marathon.

A mini marathon is a shortened version of what everyone knows as a marathon (long distance running event), according to wiki its also called a half marathon. So seeing as "marathon" is in the name of the thing its hardly ridiculous to call it a marathon. Like calling a quick kick around playing soccer, its not actually a game of soccer as defined by the laws and rules of the game but its not really a crime to refer to it as such.

Could I call a 100m sprint a 'micro-marathon'?

stevenmu

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Could I call a 100m sprint a 'micro-marathon'?

If you only joined in 10 metres from the end and then started posing for pictures you could call it a 'rosanna-thon'.

Scioch

robinph wrote: »

A marathon is an actual defined distance, a half marathon is unsurprisingly half of that distance. Marathon does not mean long distance running event, it means a running event that is a marathon distance.

A mini-marathon is a random distance and it has no reference to the distance that is a marathon.

A marathon is a distance race of 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards) and, by extension, in general speech a lengthy, arduous or time-consuming undertaking.

The word marathon doesnt just apply to the distance. Its a general term for long distance running event too.

A mini marathon is a general term to describe mid to long distance running events.

So saying marathon to describe a mini marathon isnt abuse of the language. Just pedantry on the part of those who take issue with it.

murpho999

Bloody hell we're getting some distance out of the definition of a marathon,

Paully D

Speaking of cheating in marathons, did anyone read about this last year?

Caught a bus and his Garmin which he posted and then quickly deleted showed that he was travelling at 30mph at one stage :pac: He denied it, admitted it, and then went to the BBC to deny it again.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8820301/Marathon-runner-caught-bus-to-the-finish-line.html

Rob Sloan claimed third place in the Kielder Marathon after completing the 26.2 mile course in an impressive time of 2:51:00.

But suspicions were raised by fellow runners bemused that they had not seen Sloan pass them during Sunday’s race.

After initially denying any wrongdoing, Sloan admitted to hopping onto a bus at the 20-mile mark because he was feeling tired. He then re-emerged from a wooded area of the course and picked up the bronze medal.

Witnesses reported seeing him hide behind a tree until the first and second placed runners went past, then rejoining the race behind them.
The 31-year-old now faces dismissal from his club, Sunderland Harriers, and could be banned from taking part in future marathons.

Steve Cram, the former world record holder and organiser of the race in Kielder Water, Northumberland, said: “He was the only runner in the whole of the race who ran the second half quicker than the first half.”
Sloan, a former Army mechanic from Downhill, Sunderland, was seen boasting to reporters minutes after completing the event. He described the race as “absolutely, unbelievably tough”.

When his placing was brought into doubt, he was indignant.
“I’m upset and angry that someone wants to cast these aspersions. It’s laughable, is what it is,” he insisted.

However, after organisers launched an investigation, he confessed to hitching a ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7aJJ2xUlgQ

maximoose

LordSmeg wrote: »

The word marathon doesnt just apply to the distance. Its a general term for long distance running event too.

A mini marathon is a general term to describe mid to long distance running events.

I dont see where you get that from the definition you posted?

My understanding of that definition is that in running, a marathon is set length race. In general speech - ie not relating to running - a lengthy, arduous or time-consuming undertaking.

PogMoThoin

It's a marathon task trying to keep these grammar nazis from ruining this thread

Scioch

maximoose wrote: »

I dont see where you get that from the definition you posted?

My understanding of that definition is that in running, a marathon is set length race. In general speech - ie not relating to running - .

Why does "in general speech" mean "not related to running" ? In general speech it means a "lengthy, arduous or time-consuming undertaking". Which what a mini marathon is.

Riskymove

PogMoThoin wrote: »

It's a marathon task trying to keep these grammar nazis from ruining this thread

hmmph, peasant, you obviously don't realise that "marathon" is actually derived from the Greek for "I couldn't care less"!

back to whether Rosie is a big cheaty pants please:pac:

noddyone2

MistyCheese wrote: »

..not a real marathon...

...take longer walks with me dog...

...fat arsed women claiming they've done a marathon...

There ya go I think I've covered most of the annual anti-marathon grumbling.

Spot on. Who is she? Newsreader? Important? Do tell.

GreeBo

Shryke wrote: »

Good man. Quality input. Keep it coming.

Thats what she said.

Happyman42

Paully D wrote: »

Speaking of cheating in marathons, did anyone read about this last year?

Caught a bus and his Garmin which he posted and then quickly deleted showed that he was travelling at 30mph at one stage :pac: He denied it, admitted it, and then went to the BBC to deny it again.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8820301/Marathon-runner-caught-bus-to-the-finish-line.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7aJJ2xUlgQ

Running's answer to Mick Wallace!:)

blueser

Gaz wrote: »

Give a f**k ?

Er; yes. I think I would, actually. Thanks for asking!

expectationlost

she didn't do the race in 43min, shes says she didn't, only the number/chip does

circos

Sick of people talking about how they "ran a marathon" its 10 ****ing k.

LizT

expectationlost wrote: »

she didn't do the race in 43min, shes says she didn't, only the number/chip does

Still doesn't explain the fact that she was seen coming out of a house and rejoining the race and still managed to be at the finish line at 1.08

68Murph68

The most surprising part of this thread is that 30 people voted they believe her.:eek:

Didnt think so many of the DeBurgh family had Boards accounts.

Runner2012

I finished just over 44 didn't see her anywhere en route or at the finish. Highly suspicious.

expectationlost

lizt wrote: »

Still doesn't explain the fact that she was seen coming out of a house and rejoining the race and still managed to be at the finish line at 1.08

she was heading to do it in about 50-55 and then nipped in to put on unrealistic makeup for the photo

Jesus Wept

If I ever see her I'll tell her to jog on.

jennyq

expectationlost wrote: »

she didn't do the race in 43min, shes says she didn't, only the number/chip does

But how is it possible for the chip to show a shorter time than she actually ran? It makes no sense unles she didn't really complete the full course.

WhatNowForUs?

flutterflye wrote: »

I've no idea who Rosanna Davidson is.
I'm not bothered enough to google her.
But why do people care about these things?
I really do not get it.
So effing what if someone cheated in a mini marathon?!

I think she goes by the name Jordan. You may her by that name.