Star hurdler Jana Rawlinson has had her breast implants removed to boost her chances of winning a medal for Australia at the 2012 Olympics, a magazine reported on Monday.
Rawlinson, whose private life has often made headlines in Australia, said she enjoyed having larger breasts but did not want to “short-change Australia”.
“I absolutely loved having bigger boobs, but finally I’ve grown up enough to know myself; to be honest about who I am when I look in the mirror,” Rawlinson told the Woman’s Day magazine.
“I don’t want to short-change Australia either — I want to feel the most athletic I can, to know that I’m standing on the track in London the fittest I can be.”
The double 400m world champion, who reportedly plans to remarry estranged husband Chris Rawlinson, told the magazine she had the implants because she was unhappy with her athletic figure.
“When I looked in the mirror I just saw muscled arms, broad shoulders and big, strong legs,” she said. “These are assets I need to run well, but they didn’t make me feel like an attractive woman.
“There are a couple of girls — who I won’t name — in world athletics who are Olympic champions, but they look like men and I don’t want to be like that.”
Rawlinson won the 400m hurdles at the 2003 Paris World Championships and four years later in Osaka, Japan.
(AFP)
澳洲雜誌週一報導，跨欄運動明星賈娜．羅林森移除了她的隆胸的植入體，以增加她在二Ｏ一二年為澳洲贏得奧運金牌的機會。
私人生活經常受到澳洲媒體關注的羅林森說，她喜歡較大的胸部，但不希望「讓澳洲蒙受其害」。
她對《今日女性》雜誌表示：「我當然喜歡有更大的胸部，但我終究已經成熟到可以認識自己，且能誠實面對鏡子裡真實的自己。」
「我也不希望虧欠澳洲－－我想要保持運動的最佳狀態，且知道自己是以最佳狀態站在倫敦的賽道上。」
兩屆四百米世界冠軍的羅林森對該雜誌表示，她之前對她的運動員體格感到不滿而動了隆乳手術；有報導指出，她計畫與她分居的丈夫克里斯．羅林森再婚。
她說：「當我望著鏡中的自己時，只看見孔武有力的雙臂、寬闊的肩膀和粗壯的雙腿，這些都是讓我跑得快的重要資產，但這些部位讓我感覺自己不是一個有吸引力的女人。」
「國際田徑賽中有兩名女孩（我不會透露其姓名），她們是奧運冠軍，但她們看起來像男人一樣，我不想變得像她們一樣。」
羅林森於二ＯＯ三年在巴黎及四年後在日本大阪，都拿下四百米障礙賽世界冠軍。（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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