Ian ConstantineI have the Biggest Secret.. Do you want to hear it?
October 24th 2007 10:42
I have the biggest secret in the world to tell you...
It will blow your mind…
This secret is the most explosive story of the year…
It could bring down one of the most respected sport stars…
The secret would rock the world of sport…
What’s that, you want to know the secret?
Oh that’s right, I forgot, I can’t tell you…
How annoying is that? I’m sure one of your friends has done something equivalent to this to you and it is so frustrating… Eventually, under immense pressure and constant jibing they crack and give it up anyway… It is a matter of time really, they tell you the 1st part, which proves they are dying to tell someone, and it takes a little longer for them to crack and give the whole story.
This is exactly what Elka Graham has done, well, she is at stage one of the ‘I got the biggest secret but can’t tell you club’ By telling someone you have a secret you arouse their interest and intrigue. Subconsciously you want them to know, or you wouldn’t have said anything in the 1st place. But, you’re playing a game that makes you feel moral. If they guess the right answer, you haven’t told them, they just figured it out…
If you have missed the news… Super-fish Elka Graham has publicly stated that she was offered drugs by a fellow swimmer leading into the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. She just refuses to announce the culprit.
The problem is that Elka has done it in a public forum and now is besieged because she won’t give in to the inevitable stage 2. It is something of a paradox. Yes, she has a right to keep the name(s) confidential… But if she wanted to keep the name secret, I mean really wanted, she would have kept her mouth shut and not unveiled there was a drug bandit…
All high-profile swimmers are throwing their caps and goggles into the ring; Thorpie, Hackett, Klimm have all demanded that Graham “come clean.” All she has done at the moment is cast a shadow of doubt across all swimmers. If she didn’t want to name names, why say it in the first place, and by not coming clean, the issue escalates and the sport of swimming and its athletes gets dragged through an extended mud-hole.
As I said in earlier posts, drugs in sport is an issue in modern society that seems to be never ending.
What Elka has done is effectively make the situation worse. The issue won’t fade away but intensify, especially around Graham who has put herself right in the hot seat.
How long will she hold out? If it were America, she would wait and sell her story to Opera. Perhaps she is a keen marketing Guru and she is waiting till she publishes her convenient autobiography labeled; “Why I could never tell, Until now…The Elka Graham story”
The final word? If you have a secret, you don’t tell anybody, that’s what a secret is. If you don’t want anybody to know about it, they won’t because they don’t know you have a secret… Sounds simple…
Now, did I tell you the one about a Man in Brussels…
It will blow your mind…
This secret is the most explosive story of the year…
It could bring down one of the most respected sport stars…
The secret would rock the world of sport…
What’s that, you want to know the secret?
Oh that’s right, I forgot, I can’t tell you…
How annoying is that? I’m sure one of your friends has done something equivalent to this to you and it is so frustrating… Eventually, under immense pressure and constant jibing they crack and give it up anyway… It is a matter of time really, they tell you the 1st part, which proves they are dying to tell someone, and it takes a little longer for them to crack and give the whole story.
This is exactly what Elka Graham has done, well, she is at stage one of the ‘I got the biggest secret but can’t tell you club’ By telling someone you have a secret you arouse their interest and intrigue. Subconsciously you want them to know, or you wouldn’t have said anything in the 1st place. But, you’re playing a game that makes you feel moral. If they guess the right answer, you haven’t told them, they just figured it out…
If you have missed the news… Super-fish Elka Graham has publicly stated that she was offered drugs by a fellow swimmer leading into the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. She just refuses to announce the culprit.
The problem is that Elka has done it in a public forum and now is besieged because she won’t give in to the inevitable stage 2. It is something of a paradox. Yes, she has a right to keep the name(s) confidential… But if she wanted to keep the name secret, I mean really wanted, she would have kept her mouth shut and not unveiled there was a drug bandit…
All high-profile swimmers are throwing their caps and goggles into the ring; Thorpie, Hackett, Klimm have all demanded that Graham “come clean.” All she has done at the moment is cast a shadow of doubt across all swimmers. If she didn’t want to name names, why say it in the first place, and by not coming clean, the issue escalates and the sport of swimming and its athletes gets dragged through an extended mud-hole.
As I said in earlier posts, drugs in sport is an issue in modern society that seems to be never ending.
What Elka has done is effectively make the situation worse. The issue won’t fade away but intensify, especially around Graham who has put herself right in the hot seat.
How long will she hold out? If it were America, she would wait and sell her story to Opera. Perhaps she is a keen marketing Guru and she is waiting till she publishes her convenient autobiography labeled; “Why I could never tell, Until now…The Elka Graham story”
The final word? If you have a secret, you don’t tell anybody, that’s what a secret is. If you don’t want anybody to know about it, they won’t because they don’t know you have a secret… Sounds simple…
Now, did I tell you the one about a Man in Brussels…
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