USA The pretty American beats records of popularity Internet NEWPORT BEACH - Yelena Isinbayeva has much to be done. Oh! not so much for his world record which, perched at 5.01 m, is still inaccessible for most of its current competitors. Rather, the immense popularity of the Tsarina of discipline which, ultimately, is threatened. On the Net in particular. A young American has thus already been driven out in the major search engines. His name: Allison Stokke
. Aged 18 years, the pole vaulter from Newport Beach is one of the latest findings of Internet users, who have ensured a popularity rating called "phenomenal" by the experts at the start of a simple photograph taken shortly before his backswing at a competition in New York.
Black shorts and white top, the pole resting on his right shoulder, the beautiful brunette with olive skin goes hand in her hair she just attach. Poses an altogether commonplace in this environment, but considered suggestive, if not more, for all the unsuspecting eyes. The photo in question, taken and published on-line by a journalist, was quickly diverted from its original use, namely the illustration of an article devoted to the presentation of a meeting in California.
Absolutely charming
Stokke, whose past as a gymnast (as Isinbayeva ...) proved invaluable to the pole, typed in the eye of more than one user who e-mail e-mail from blog to blog, have given the picture a global dimension, necessarily beyond all control. And since the laws of the Internet are so made that nothing is lost and that everyone knows, the comments of all kinds (praise romantic fantasies cruder) quickly reached the ears of the complainant, victim of a sort of boomerang effect caused by its sudden popularity.
An interview with her (she was point out in close-cropped) commenting on one of his performance was viewed more than one million times on a famous video site online. The blogs have referenced various photos of the athlete (the collection is regularly updated with new stereotypes or private, whose origin remains mysterious) beat all their attendance records last month. And a well known search engine now offers more than a million results when encoded name. Worse! In the town where she lives, poor Allison stared into the street, hardly dares to leave her house to eat a salad in his favorite fast food. Being pretty is hell! "Even if none of this is illegal, I find the situation completely insane! "Lamented the student university in the columns of The Washington Post. I worked so hard to achieve a successful career, and it's almost as if these efforts do not count. Nobody sees them. Nobody sees me .. ".
In solidarity against the champion, his fansite unofficial ceased operations, writing tersely: "Sorry to have contributed to this unwanted attention, Allison. We wish you good luck ... " Frightened, he seems, by the increasing desires it arouses, by the including national broadcasters,
Allison Stoke now almost routinely refuses requests for interviews. And seems inexorably sinking into paranoia, especially as photographers and cameramen crowded in each of his appearances on the jumper. Because ultimately, that is its main activity, whatever the voyeurs. Courage, therefore, Allison phenomena are, by definition, ephemeral ...
Source: The Last Hour 2007
