Ms. Feld said today's children who attend the circus and were raised on animation and video games may relate more easily to Ms. Grace than they would to an older, male performer say, tiger tamer Tabayara, no matter how impressive his mastery over his 13 ferocious cats.
He is allowed to compete in athletic events but the organiser of this summer's London Anniversary Games said he would not be invited in case it turned into a "media circus".