She is originally from the city I live in (Sunderland, NE England) and I don't recall anything on the local news. Karen Leighton has put something in the GB Gymnasts Archive but I can't find the original - just a Twitter screen shot:
Walking to the arena in Liverpool - my other half says 'hi Claudia'... I say to him 'who was that?' - he says 'Claudia Fragapone'. My work here is done but she is a midget!
At the end of the day the wrong person still has the bronze (because a lack of transparency of the ND - how do you know to query a deduction unless you know what it is for?) and everyone is unhappy. This is certainly up there with Sydney vault
In the UK 4 year fans know next to nothing - I've returned to work today after a week off to watch the gymnastics and I've had conversations like this:
'Weren't GB great on the horse thing'
'Well not as good as we could have been - we came 4th' (thinking they were on about Max)
No - we nearly...