{"id":875,"date":"2009-08-20T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2009-08-20T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:13:56","slug":"sunglasses-wearing-jenny-meadows-wins-bronze-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/sunglasses-wearing-jenny-meadows-wins-bronze-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunglasses Wearing Jenny Meadows Wins Bronze in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-876 aligncenter\" title=\"800m Final in Berlin 2009\" alt=\"cas595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cas595.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pint-sized sunglasses wearing British athlete Jenny Meadows made a late charge last night to a brilliant Bronze medal in the 800m at the Athletics World Championship in Berlin.\u00a0 (Jenny Meadows on the far left).<\/p>\n<p>She was all but last when she began her final lap of the track and even as the athletes entered the finishing straight she was still way back in 6th place.\u00a0 It was an amazing sprint to the finish line for the little pocket rocket Jenny who took the long way round her competitors only narrowly missing out on the Silver medal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video removed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But rumours and speculation about the gender of winning athlete South Africa&#8217;s Caster Semenya, who dominated the race could mean that Jenny\u2019s Bronze Medal could be upgraded to a Silver if the results of a possible gender test prove conclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Meadows\u2019 great result follows the amazing success of Phillips Idowu\u2019s Triple Jump Gold Medal and Britain\u2019s new Golden Girl Jessica Ennis who won Gold in the Heptathlon and is tipped to become British Sports Personality of the Year and Face of the London 2012 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<h2>Jenny Meadows \u2013 The Sunglasses Wearing Athlete<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s not too hard to find pictures of Britain\u2019s top athletes these days, but you will be hard pressed to find pictures of Jenny Meadows where she is <strong>not<\/strong> actually wearing any sporting sunglasses of some kind or other.\u00a0 It seems they have been surgically attached to her face.\u00a0 But maybe she\u2019s just being sensible and trying to protect her eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-878 aligncenter\" title=\"jenny-at-berlin-2009\" alt=\"jenny-at-berlin-2009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jenny-at-berlin-2009.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Petite Jenny is often seen sporting Oakley Sunglasses whether she is on or off the track.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-879 aligncenter\" title=\"jenny-collage\" alt=\"jenny-collage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jenny-collage.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><em>Jenny&#8217;s various sunglasses trends, she is often seen wearing white or pink coloured Oakley Sunglasses at events including the Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 (bottom right at the Great Wall of China).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-877 aligncenter\" title=\"Dame Kelly Holmes and Jenny Meadows\" alt=\"Dame Kelly Holmes and Jenny Meadows\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/kelly_and_jenny.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Jenny Meadows with legendary double Olympic Champion Dame Kelly Holmes &#8211; both wearing Sunglasses<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some great sporting sunglasses why not try our excellent selection of Rudy Project Sunglasses, ideal for all kinds of sports with many kinds of specialist lenses including extra tough ImpactX Photochromic.<\/p>\n<p>We also have a great selection of Cebe Sunglasses and Bolle Sunglasses, both of which are ideal for the spoting kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pint-sized sunglasses wearing British athlete Jenny Meadows made a late charge last night to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[189,254,374,952,1163,1170,1235,1323,1586,1596,1711,1951,2147,2208],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}