No boobs for Olympic glory

[V8mate]

Bye bye boobies

Do you think Linford would have been speedier if he'd had his lunchbox removed?

[Magog]

Wasn't there a female racing driver in the 20s or 30s who had her breasts removed to aid her ability to race?

[PJ S]

Well, I'm sure her sponsors or fees from TV appearances, etc will cover the cost of reimplanting them to console herself, once she loses due to pulling her hamstring in the heats.
Complete non-story for a non-entity - come on, hands up who'd heard of here before now?

[Pothole]

Magog said:

Wasn't there a female racing driver in the 20s or 30s who had her breasts removed to aid her ability to race?

probably more to aid her ability to pretend to be a man in order to race...I thought, but no. It was Violette Morris

Morris's lifestyle was quite different from the traditional role of women during the 1920s. In addition to her wide-ranging athletic activities, Morris deviated from traditional behaviors of the time in several other ways. Among other things, she smoked heavily, two to three packs of cigarettes per day, and swore often.
She was refused license renewal by the Fédération française sportive féminine (FFSF (French Women's Athletic Federation)) amid complaints of her lesbian lifestyle and was therefore barred from participating in the 1928 Summer Olympics. The agency cited her lack of morals, especially in light of the fact that one of her lovers, Raoul Paoli, made public her bisexual activities. Paoli had recently left Morris after she had initially decided to undergo an elective mastectomy in order to fit into racecars more easily. After 1928, Morris settled into owning a car parts store in Paris, and, along with her employees, building racecars. Bisexual Nazi freak by all accounts

[Kermit power]

Pothole said:

Magog said:

Wasn't there a female racing driver in the 20s or 30s who had her breasts removed to aid her ability to race?

probably more to aid her ability to pretend to be a man in order to race...I thought, but no. It was Violette Morris

If there ever has been discrimination against women wanting to race cars, it came in quite a bit later than that. There were certainly a surprising number of women racing at Brooklands in the 20s & 30s, including Doreen Evans, Jill Scott, Margaret Allen, Kay Petre, 'Flying Fay' Taylor and Elsie 'Bill' Wisdom, to say nothing of Gwenda Hawkes (née Glubb), Gwenda Janson (née Glubb) and Gwenda Stewart (née Glubb)!

Digging around a bit turns up the picture below. The driver is Kay Petre - all 4'10" of her. The car is her frankly insane 10.5 litre Delage V12.

Edited to add the photo!

Edited by Kermit power on Monday 4th January 17:30

[Halb]

Looked for a pic of an Amazon archer, but found this instead....erm

[Pothole]

Halb said:

Looked for a pic of an Amazon archer, but found this instead....erm

Caroline Wozniacki...Polish/Danish 19 yr old

[elster]

Pothole said:

Halb said:

Looked for a pic of an Amazon archer, but found this instead....erm

Caroline Wozniacki...Polish/Danish 19 yr old

I am pretty sure that is Miss Halep. 18 year old Romanian Girl.

[Greg_D]

elster said:

Pothole said:

Halb said:

Looked for a pic of an Amazon archer, but found this instead....erm

Caroline Wozniacki...Polish/Danish 19 yr old

I am pretty sure that is Miss Halep. 18 year old Romanian Girl.

Either way, ding....dong

Greg

[Magog]

Kermit power said:

Pothole said:

Magog said:

Wasn't there a female racing driver in the 20s or 30s who had her breasts removed to aid her ability to race?

probably more to aid her ability to pretend to be a man in order to race...I thought, but no. It was Violette Morris

If there ever has been discrimination against women wanting to race cars, it came in quite a bit later than that. There were certainly a surprising number of women racing at Brooklands in the 20s & 30s, including Doreen Evans, Jill Scott, Margaret Allen, Kay Petre, 'Flying Fay' Taylor and Elsie 'Bill' Wisdom, to say nothing of Gwenda Hawkes (née Glubb), Gwenda Janson (née Glubb) and Gwenda Stewart (née Glubb)!

Digging around a bit turns up the picture below. The driver is Kay Petre - all 4'10" of her. The car is her frankly insane 10.5 litre Delage V12.

Edited to add the photo!

Edited by Kermit power on Monday 4th January 17:30

It was Miranda Seymours biography of Hellé Nice where i read about Violette Morris. Entitled the Bugatti Queen. I highly recommend it, absolutely fascinating story. Here is a wiki link for an overview; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%C3%A9_Nice

[PJ S]

Greg_D said:

elster said:

Pothole said:

Halb said:

Looked for a pic of an Amazon archer, but found this instead....erm

Caroline Wozniacki...Polish/Danish 19 yr old

I am pretty sure that is Miss Halep. 18 year old Romanian Girl.

Either way, ding....dong

Greg

Except she's more ting and tong now - not having the original volume of ding and dong, as aptly demonstrated by the picture.

[V8mate]

elster said:

Pothole said:

Halb said:

Looked for a pic of an Amazon archer, but found this instead....erm

Caroline Wozniacki...Polish/Danish 19 yr old

I am pretty sure that is Miss Halep. 18 year old Romanian Girl.

Yep. Simona Halep.

[elster]

PJ S said:

Greg_D said:

elster said:

Pothole said:

Halb said:

Looked for a pic of an Amazon archer, but found this instead....erm

Caroline Wozniacki...Polish/Danish 19 yr old

I am pretty sure that is Miss Halep. 18 year old Romanian Girl.

Either way, ding....dong

Greg

Except she's more ting and tong now - not having the original volume of ding and dong, as aptly demonstrated by the picture.

Indeed she had them reduced from 34FF to 34C.

A sad day for tennis

[Pothole]

elster said:

PJ S said:

Greg_D said:

elster said:

Pothole said:

Halb said:

Looked for a pic of an Amazon archer, but found this instead....erm

Caroline Wozniacki...Polish/Danish 19 yr old

I am pretty sure that is Miss Halep. 18 year old Romanian Girl.

Either way, ding....dong

Greg

Except she's more ting and tong now - not having the original volume of ding and dong, as aptly demonstrated by the picture.

Indeed she had them reduced from 34FF to 34C.

A sad day for tennis

then the pic as posted is poorly tagged. If they no longer exist,that's poor too!

[Steve748]

different angle on this story

[PJ S]

Steve748 said:

different angle on this story

And some more angles, just for good measure.









Oops! Those last two aren't Simona........ah what the heck.
Fear not though, Simona's successor is here

[eyebeebe]

I reckon that with the brunette bending over above as my secret weapon, we would stroll to victory in the Wimbledon mixed doubles

[turbobloke]

There is a partial solution, include jiggling as an Olympic event and promote cross-discipline participation.

Training session (NSFW) Click

[PJ S]

turbobloke said:

There is a partial solution, include jiggling as an Olympic event and promote cross-discipline participation.

Training session (NSFW) Click

You've been waiting for the right excuse to post that up, for years, I'll bet.

[Fer]

PJ S said:

turbobloke said:

There is a partial solution, include jiggling as an Olympic event and promote cross-discipline participation.

Training session (NSFW) Click

You've been waiting for the right excuse to post that up, for years, I'll bet.

You say that like it's a bad thing. It sure beats MX-5 for a response.