Talk:Brandi Chastain

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Contents 1 Update Requested 2 Photo Requested 3 POV and other concerns 4 RE: POV & Other concerns =

[edit] Update Requested

This needs updating. Brandi is loooong retired from playing soccer, and has begun working as a sideline reporter for the American Broadcasting Company's MLS coverage.

[edit] Photo Requested

I think too someone should put up a pic of her in the sports bra. That was a big moment.

[edit] POV and other concerns

I believe the sentence "This iconic image of women's athletic triumph..." contains both POV and original research. It's not for Wikipedia to decide an image is Iconic. And "...women's athletic triumph..." is far from a neutral description of the image.

The same section also goes in original research when it says "Chastain became a famous name...". This is simply a very hard to source statement, and a such, should be completely avoided.

Also, wordings like "...witnessed by 90,000 fans at the Rose Bowl..." and "media darling" doesn't sound encyclopedic at all (not everybody in a stadium is a "fan". How do we define "media darling"?).

Also, the image caption is a very strong claim that really needs to be sourced: "The Sports bra incident was famous partly because of this Sports Illustrated cover...", but I don't see how one would go to source this. --Abu badali ^(talk) 15:10, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: POV & Other concerns =

Perhaps the term 90,000 people would we more appropriate. The fact that there were so many there would obviously have added to the sense of occasion.

You do raise some valid points with the definition of "Media Darling", although there can be little doubt that this is, in the eyes of the general public, the incident she is best remembered for. Something more along these lines may be more suitable. Thewiikione 11:09, 24 June 2007 (UTC)