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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Does anyone recall in 1992 I believe when Nike when on the big ad campaign of Dan vs. Dave in the Decathlon? I think that was the billing, but I definitely remember one of them screwed up pretty bad in the trials and did not go to the Olympics. Kudos to the USOC for not doing what it looks like the Aussies MIGHT do. If they don't do this at all then this is all conjecture, but the money the USOC would have made throught those Olympics from Nike promoting the "duel" was never realized because they stuck to the rules.
Does anyone recall in 1992 I believe when Nike when on the big ad campaign of Dan vs. Dave in the Decathlon? I think that was the billing, but I definitely remember one of them screwed up pretty bad in the trials and did not go to the Olympics. Kudos to the USOC for not doing what it looks like the Aussies MIGHT do. If they don't do this at all then this is all conjecture, but the money the USOC would have made throught those Olympics from Nike promoting the "duel" was never realized because they stuck to the rules.
