Recently, one of the world's leading sports TV channel ESPN voted, in which was determined the most outstanding female athlete in the last forty years.
She became Ronda Rousay not mixed martial arts. I do not belittle the achievements of any of the first and the defending champion in the female form of the discipline according to one of the most authoritative organizations UFC. Likewise, I have no questions about the candidate from tennis, football or swimming. Just because I understand it a little more than in Polynesian cuisine. Selected audience, sports fans and others — journalists, so the claims to objectivity no choice absolutely no.
Claims have to channel ESPN, whose experts have formed the original list of forty athletes from which system the playoffs and was picked the most outstanding in the last forty years. In the top 40 I have not got any woman, professionally engaged in drag racing.
The vote did not participate triple champion NHRA Shirley Maldauni (Top Fuel) and Angell Sempa (Pro Stock Motorcycles), as well as the reigning champion in the Pro Stock class and the clear favorite of the season Eric Enders Stephens. Drag racing is incredibly popular in America, and ESPN was not the first decade, covers all the event, taking place under the auspices of NHRA. And personally, I'm a hundred percent that steps NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series were collected on their stands more viewers than any championship in swimming. It turns out that it's not popular. Then what?
Perhaps ESPN experts in the formation of the starting grid contenders for the title repelled by the number of photo shoots in men's magazines, which were photographed sporting diva?
How else to explain the fact that in the top 40 there pilotessa Danica Patrick, who won just one step IndyCar 115, which has been involved, has never finished in the top five in NASCAR, and did not rise above twenty-seventh position at the end of the season in the most famous series of body USA. Contribution to the development of motorsport? Also not about her. Naturally, the First Lady of drag racing Maldauni Shirley was deeply outraged by this situation, «Danica? Who? Are you seriously? She's just a marketing tool and nothing more. The title of „outstanding“ or „supreme“ implies a certain athletic achievement, victory records. In the seventies, the press was openly spit on my person exactly to the moment, until I started to win and show results. » By the way, in the top 40 female athletes in the last forty years that ESPN published in 2012, also entered no lady of the world glued strips and high-octane fuel.
It is necessary to make one more important point. In drag racing, there is absolutely no division by gender, and in contrast to the same rally or «Formula 1» in the context of the races on kvoter you can remain competitive, his seventh decade. So, maybe it was worth to pay attention to sports, where eighteen girls defy the bearded guy who «in the subject» more than a decade? How was it possible to forget about the discipline in which the weaker sex (though the adjective «weak» as somehow not really fit in with the 10,000-strong monsters that nitromethane burns buckets) claimed in their fragile hands the greatest number of trophies and titles in the history of motorsport ? These are the questions I have no anything like a clear answer.
And if you go back to the winner Ronda Rousay not, it seems to me that 27 years — it's just a lack of age for the title of «most outstanding». «The youngest» or «First» — there are no problems, but 27 did not become the most prominent in the last 40 years. This is simply incorrect in terms of history as a science. In other matters, all of this is my personal opinion, this is a subjective as the opinion of all those who took part in the vote ESPN.
