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It would be wise not to make unsubstantiated assertions about Fatima :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...#ixzz1ds9Toi9Y

Snide remarks about her muscular physique and rumours linking her with performance-enhancing drugs dogged her career. She addressed these directly after she had retired. Her strength, she said, came from ‘incredibly hard work and amazingly hard eating’.

She explained: ‘I’m 5ft 5in and I was competing against girls of up to 6ft with a range of movement far greater than mine. To beat bodies like that, I had to make myself stronger, faster and more powerful than them.

‘I had to force-feed myself on a daily basis; large meals, then a high-protein drink with three eggs, bananas, ice cream and milk. A pint of that twice a day. I know it did strange things to me. My body didn’t function like a normal woman.

‘My breasts just disappeared beneath the muscle. I didn’t have periods for seven or eight years. I was told I couldn’t have carried a child because the lining of the womb had become too thin. Sure, it was strange. But it had to be done.’

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/533490.stm

Fatima joke proves costly

Former Olympic athlete Fatima Whitbread has accepted a public apology and undisclosed libel damages over "tasteless and offensive" comments made on the BBC comedy quiz They Think It's All Over.

Two panellists on the popular BBC One show, brodcast on 13 May and repeated five days later, suggested that during her career Ms Whitbread had unnaturally high levels of testosterone in her blood.

Her solicitor Graham Atkins told Mr Justice Morland in the High Court in London the panellists made a tasteless and offensive statement about Ms Whitbread, who he described as "one of Great Britain's most successful athletes".