{"id":8023,"date":"2021-05-07T05:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T05:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2021-05-07T05:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T05:02:28","slug":"gordon-ramsay-exclusive-kona-dnf-family-the-m-dot-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8023","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Ramsay exclusive:  Kona DNF, family &#038; the M-Dot tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive, no holds barred, interview with <em>220 Triathlon<\/em> magazine Gordon Ramsay reveals how he really felt about his dramatic, very public, withdrawal from Kona and answers his critics about why he should compete in Hawaii.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI took a lot of flak for not qualifying, but I never made out I was an elite athlete and I\u2019m not depriving anyone of a place,\u201d said the celebrity chef.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDown the line I\u2019d like to silence my critics and take six to nine months off and bust my arse to qualify.\u201d<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He credits tri as life saving in this personal interview, and reveals how abuse from spectators at the 2001 London Marathon, and the early death of his father, spurred him to get fit<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cI remember coming past mile 22 and people shouting \u2018hey Ramsay, you fat bastard, you\u2019re not so hard now,\u2019 and asking me if I\u2019d lost my sports bra. I was 17-stone and when I got back it was dark. Aged 34, I needed to get my \u2018shit\u2019 together. My father died of a heart attack at 53 and would still be living today had he taken care of himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full interview with Gordon in the April issue of <em>220 Triathlon<\/em> on sale now or subscribe to the magazine here\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can watch the TV chef talking to us ahead of Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire here<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.isoccertracksuit.com\/celtic-735.html' title='Celtic football tracksuit'>Celtic football tracksuit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive, no holds barred, interview with 220 Triathlon magazine Gordon Ramsay reveals how he really felt about his dramatic, very public, withdrawal from Kona and answers his critics about why he should compete in Hawaii.\u00a0 Advertisement \u00a0\u201cI took a lot of flak for not qualifying, but I never made out I was an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}