Olympic Gold = Jimmy Choos
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
You can take the girl out of the sportswoman, with competitive focus and bare faced concentration. However, when the cameras are off and the games are over, you can also take the sportswoman out of the girl it seems.
What do you give a 19 year old double gold medal Olympic champion? A pair of gold Jimmy Choos apparently.
“I loooove shoes. I want one pair for every outfit. I’ve got well over 30 pairs but you can never have enough,” said olympian Rebecca Adlington, on her ceremonial return to hometown Mansfield today. Having won the women’s 400m freestyle and going on to break the oldest world record in swimming in 800m, Rebecca was confident of a repeat performance with the promise of more shoes.
Her time of 8:14.10 for the 800m, was 2.12 seconds faster than the previous record set by United States olympian Janet Evans, 19 years ago.
In addition to the parade, Rebecca also had a local swimming pool named in her honour and the Owners of the local ‘Yates’s’ were changing the name of it to the Adlington Arms.
The company chief executive Toby Smith stated “As a nation we’re very proud of her and she is a shining example to all young people of what can be achieved with hard work and commitment. What better way to honour her than to name her local pub after her? We hear she’s a fan of burger and chips, so, Rebecca, whenever you come into Adlington Arms your meal is on the house!”
The Jimmy Choos may be slightly more motivational than the burgers though.
