Olympics Smoking Ban May Hurt My Chances of a Gold Medal, Says Team GB Golfer Charley Hull
Team GB golfer Charley Hull has said the Olympic ban on smoking may harm her chances as cigarettes help her relax after her ADHD diagnosis last year. The Telegraph has more.
Charley Hull has been banned from smoking while playing in the Olympic tournament here at Le Golf National and the Englishwoman fears it might hamper her chance of gold.
Hull went viral on the internet recently when she was pictured with a cigarette hanging from her mouth as she signed autographs for fans at the U.S. Women’s Open. The 28-year-old laughed off the exposure, saying “everyone in my family smokes – my dad goes through 40 a day”.
Hull, who describes herself as a “gym freak”, is supremely fit, but believes that puffing away helps after being diagnosed last year with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the world No. 11, will not be able to rely on tobacco relief for the 72-hole event that starts on Wednesday.
“Yeah, I do smoke on the course, it’s just something I do,” Hull said. “It’s a habit but I won’t do this week.” When asked why, she replied: “I don’t think you’re allowed.”
And Hull seriously does believe it will affect her as she tries to replicate Justin Rose’s gold in 2016 and Tommy Fleetwood’s silver on Sunday. “Yeah, I think it will,” Hull said. “Because it relaxes me a little bit. But it is what it is.”
The Paris organisers have been asked for comment, but insiders said that nobody was allowed to smoke on Olympic sites – including fans.
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You couldn’t pay me enough to go to France or to go the Olympics, let alone both at the same time.
”Living in a time when we routinely poison ourselves—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually— with all kinds of things, cigarettes do not sit atop my list of suicide machines. I praise cigarettes because smoking them increases my sense of vitality: not through nicotine or juvenile rebellion, but through a concrete act of hope, fearlessness, and folly in a disenchanted age of temerity, despair, and sycophantic safety.” Sam Rocha.
Smoking has always been a slightly rebellious, devil may care, worldly wise activity and as such is an anathema to our elite rulers, they want conformity and obedience and cannot abide anyone blowing smoke at them with a supercillious look on their face.
I can’t stand the things myself but certainly have no interest in stopping others from doing it
Smoking smells disgusting, tastes disgusting and doesn’t reflect good health. Instead it reflects poor health and an addictive personality. If I were younger and on the dating scene, looking for somebody to settle down with, I wouldn’t find that attractive at all. But each to their own. There’s someone for everybody, I guess.
Unwashed people in dirty clothes smell disgusting, especially in rooms crowded with lot of them. Additional malus awarded for unwashed bare feet in some sort of cheap Chinese pastic imitation of shoes. The creepy crawlies they tend to carry around with them in droves are also not exactly pleasant. But we all have our fetishes and I guess stale piss, reheated dried shit on ass cheeks, underpants smelling of old blood or sperm and on top of that, flea bites is just what keeps non-smokers happy and in perfect health. Swine also prefer their very own ways of living. —- On a more reflective than congratuling you to having perfectly memorized your lesson, addiction is mostly a construct invented for the purpose of justifying to override other people’s conscious decisions. And it’s applied very strangely. For instance, Cannabis addicition is routinely disclaimed despite everyone in the know knows it exists and that the withdrawal effects which draw out for weeks are really unpleasant and (at the beginning of it) quite debilitating. However, nicotine addiction is claimed as a certainty despite everyone knows (or ought to know) it’s fiction as there are no withdrawal effects and people typically stop smoking by… Read more »
Haha, same. I get the impression the French like to smoke in the same way the Poles like to drink vodka as if it’s water. Possibly I’m dealing in stereotypes though…As for smoking, it’s rank. Can you remember back in the 1990s ( I’m guessing ) when you’d go to a restaurant and you had to say if you wanted to sit in the smoking or non-smoking section? lol But the smoke used to drift over anyway so you’d still be sat there passively smoking while eating your carbonara. I remember when smoking was allowed on public transport ( those stubber thingies on the back of bus seats ) and as a kid it used to make my travel sickness way worse, and on school trips I’d be the one hurling into a bucket at the front of the coach.
That was possibly TMI, but there you go, ”I’ve started so I’ll finish”.
I’m not keen on fag smoke indoors but don’t f places want to allow smoking then I say let them
The parts of the world I frequent which some rich and out-of-touch lawyerly blokes a long time ago decided to call “France” are lovely.
With you on the Olympics, though. I quite simply couldn’t care less about it.
I guess I was thinking more about Paris/urban France in general
Odd the elites have almost made cannabis taking compulsory yet tobacco remains a sin. The former is a carcinogen and a precursor to harder drugs. It is also responsible for much of the ncrease in Schizophrenia and that leads to some very serious criminal acts.
Speaking of the Olympics, it will come as a surprise to precisely no-one that the biological Algerian man beat the Thai woman ( who also looks like a guy but is presumably just butch and has XX chromosomes ) in the boxing;
”Thai women’s boxer got pummeled as she fought Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has male XY chromosomes, during the Olympics semi-finals tonight.
Janjaem Suwannapheng was defeated with Khelif now going on to compete for gold.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1820930128899088686
Take a look at this picture. This Thai boxer looks very much like a man to me. Can we place bets and see who thinks this is a man or just a butch-looking women? I’ve got that George Orwell ‘1984’ quote in my head again now. It’s all very suss;
https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1820945318432641337
You cannot stop yesterday, so stop today. ——-STOP NOW.
You’re from the NHS and here to help?