Things I wish I had known: The Threats
Things I wish I had known part 3. The Threats! This is an article series about things the author wish she had been aware of when starting out her professional career within equestrian media.
Like I initially stated in the post about Censorship I was naive to think things like these were never gonna come my way either as a writing reporter or blogger in the world of horses and equestrianism.
Turns out I was wrong.
One memorable episode about a threat was doing some digging around Olympic funding of some riders. At the time not only me but a lot of other people had seen some weird things connected to one of the riders.
Things that didn’t add up.
Things worth digging into.
So I did.
Part of me wish I hadn’t.
The response that landed in my inbox from the then president of this specific National Olympic committee was frightening. Like Halloween the movie frightening!
Reading it I must have made me look like that painting by Edward Munch, you know the Scream. It literally sent chills down my spine making me scared shitless!
In all, the only thing missing from his response to what should have been a vert easy question to respond to, was basically a threat on my life.
A huge part of the current version of me wish I still had that e-mail.
Cause years later as in the year of 2024 that particular e-mail would have ruined his career in every sense of the word, for good!
Then we for sure would not have had to see him swagging around as the Chef de Mission for his home country during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
So again, you live, you learn, and I personally would not lift an eyebrow is and when any story of some kind of misconduct on his behalf comes out.
What a creep!
