If I am reading this right, Swiminfo.com is reporting that Craig Stevens is indeed going to back out of the 400 and leave it up to Australia Swimming to "pick another member of the Olympic Team" to swim that race in Athens. If I am ANY other country, swimmer, the 3rd place finisher at the Trials or an organization interested in ethics, then I am raising a stink on this one!!!! Thorpe DQ'd and the Aussies are going to skirt the rule and get him in anyway. They would be relegated to the status of Ben Johnson, Rosie Ruiz, and the 60+% of MLB who are on steriods! This is FREAKIN' UNBELIEVABLE. I have no respect for any of the aforementioned and if this happens, none for Ian Thorpe and the Australian swim federation (or whatever official name they hide behind) are in that seeming, stinking pile.
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Jeez, you're RIGHT! The rules that say the top two finishers in a race swim that race in the Olympics and if one is unavailable, the third place finisher moves up, ARE SILLY. Let's arbitrarily put whomever we want on the team. Thorpe IS the fastest, so we should just hand him the spot and not even waste the taper at Trials. In fact, give him the gold medal; he's so far ahead anyway...tell Jon Sieben or the '84 US 800FSR that.
HE FALSE STARTED; HE IS OUT. I did the same leading off a relay at USMS NATS last May; can I petition and get our 4th place back if I can pursuade DCAC to move down to 5th?
The Aussie swimming association are the cheaters, if they do this. It's sad, sends a message that the rules don't matter and winning is the only thing.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Cheat, cheat, cheat!
Oh, and Foster IS getting robbed more, btw...
Jeez, you're RIGHT! The rules that say the top two finishers in a race swim that race in the Olympics and if one is unavailable, the third place finisher moves up, ARE SILLY. Let's arbitrarily put whomever we want on the team. Thorpe IS the fastest, so we should just hand him the spot and not even waste the taper at Trials. In fact, give him the gold medal; he's so far ahead anyway...tell Jon Sieben or the '84 US 800FSR that.
HE FALSE STARTED; HE IS OUT. I did the same leading off a relay at USMS NATS last May; can I petition and get our 4th place back if I can pursuade DCAC to move down to 5th?
The Aussie swimming association are the cheaters, if they do this. It's sad, sends a message that the rules don't matter and winning is the only thing.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Cheat, cheat, cheat!
Oh, and Foster IS getting robbed more, btw...
