...a fine retort from Jaguar to the Aussie homophobe...slap the breeder where it hurts...in the heat of the next exciting moment she may remember to tweet something less offensive:
Jaguar drops Aussie swimmer Rice over 'faggots' slur
Published: 7/09/2010 at 10:56 AM
Online news: Sports
Australia's triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice was stripped of her sponsorship deal with luxury carmaker Jaguar Tuesday after she posted a homophobic remark on Twitter.
Australia's triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Ric, pictured here at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Rome last year, has been stripped of her sponsorship deal with luxury carmaker Jaguar after she posted a homophobic remark on Twitter.
The swimmer landed herself in controversy after tweeting "Suck on that faggots!" in triumph at Australia's narrow win over South Africa in the Tri-Nations rugby on Saturday.
Openly gay former rugby league international Ian Roberts led condemnation of the remark, which Rice has since removed and apologised for, calling her and anyone who supported her an "idiot".
Jaguar Tuesday announced it had scrapped its sponsorship deal with the 22-year-old and said she would have to give back her XF sports car, worth more than 100,000 Australian dollars (90,000 US).
"We have terminated our agreement with her," Jaguar spokesman Mark Eedle told AFP.
"The terms of the agreement remain confidential ... Suffice to say she's obviously been driving one of our cars and that benefit will no longer happen."
Eedle said Jaguar wished to distance itself from the Twitter comment. "It's to do with how we want to associate our brand and unfortunately this... is not an association we want to have going forward," he said.
But gay Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham, a gold medallist at the 2008 Beijing Games, came to Rice's defence on the microblogging site.
"It was offensive and very thoughtless, but being friends with her for two years, I know she is not homophobic," Mitcham wrote.
"She meant no malice, and she has apologised for her careless comment posted in the excitement of the moment."
Rice, who was forced out of the upcoming Commonwealth Games with a shoulder injury last month, has been romantically linked to Wallabies player Quade Cooper.
...majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd...
Jag is a faggot car anyhow.Originally Posted by tomcat
I thought that faggots prefer public transport
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. - TJ
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I didn't realize fags were running Jaguar...bit sensitive, don't ya think?
"Goddamn it Lord, bless oh ye this bacon..."
George Liquor American
Interesting how 'fag' rhymes with 'jag.' Coincidence or?
Breeders/fags/faggots/fag it's all the same, eh?
Breeders = bad
Fag hags = good
Where's the gay mafia when you need them?
HOMOPHOBE!
From the way TC posts, I'd have to say he's a hetrophobe...
Stop being such a fag basher. Oops.
Yer all gay!
Let's play 'smear the queer.' Pannie, you're 'it.' Oops.
Surely you mean ocean liners. For cruising.
I'll get me coat. And leather studded cap
Signature schmignature.....
Why is calling somebody a cigarette so offensive?
If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you.
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