- Alyssa Healy has hit out at Olympic nice Ian Thorpe
- Thorpey made a giant name through the Paris Video games
- Healy says the Aussie ladies’s cricket crew are missed
Alyssa Healy has taken concern with one piece of commentary made by Aussie swimming nice Ian Thorpe on the Olympic Video games.
Thorpe, watching on because the nation’s celebrity ladies’s freestyle quartet took gold within the relay, was effusive in his reward as they took the highest step of the rostrum for a fourth successive Video games.
‘I do not assume there’s a extra dominant Australian crew in any code, any sport,’ he mentioned. ‘Please inform me if there may be one. Completely satisfied to be unsuitable on it.’
Australia ladies’s cricket captain Healy, watching the motion again residence with husband Mitchell Starc, was stunned by the remark.
The cricketers definitely have a proper to the title of finest Australian crew in any code. They’ve gained the final 4 World Cups, gained gold within the Commonwealth Video games two years in the past and have gained each Ashes collection since 2015.
‘I like that (Thorpe) thought that and he is pointed that out,’ Healy advised the Every day Telegraph.
‘After which swiftly, you see folks mentioning different groups which have been simply as profitable. I imply, I like (rugby sevens star) Charlotte Caslick’s quote as effectively about (so as) to get some consideration they have to win gold simply to attempt to get consideration.
‘And I really feel like that is sort of the place we’re at as effectively. Folks anticipate us to win on a regular basis.
Alyssa Healy has hit again at Ian Thorpe after the swimming nice’s daring declare
Thorpe made a remark through the Paris Olympics that caught Healy’s consideration
Thorpe mentioned Australia’s 4x100m crew is the very best in any code however Healy thinks otherwise
‘And while you fall a little bit bit quick, it is just like the world’s ending however on the identical time, it is skilled sport, and it is arduous to maintain keep that commonplace. So look, we’ll preserve attempting our greatest and attempt to get within the entrance of Thorpey’s thoughts.’
Reflecting on how her crew manages to maintain motivation ranges excessive, regardless of already successful all there may be to win of their sport, Healy mentioned: ‘We set actually excessive expectations of ourselves as effectively.
‘We do not go right into a World Cup pondering we’ll come second, we’re going there to win a trophy and we set lofty requirements ourselves.
‘However we all know inside our group how we’re monitoring and the way that is wanting main into it.
‘However the expectations from exterior we sort of preserve at bay. Everybody thinks we’re gonna stroll residence with the trophy, however we all know how arduous it’s to win a World Cup and the way shut we have been to not successful World Cups up to now.
‘So we do not take that as a right. We’ll let the surface noise do what it does. And we’ll simply deal with what we will do internally to ensure that we’re doing the job.’
