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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I knew this would happen. Come on, NBC paid, what - a Billion - to air the Olympics? Did anyone really think we were not going to here Jim Gray say "Ian Thorpe goes for the gold in the 400 NEXT!" The problem is we live in a society that over values individualism. Don't have kids until you make enough money to hire a full-time sitter. Emmet Smith hands the ball to the ref? Are you kidding me! Face it, this will happen. Even if Thorpe feels it is wrong, he will be iced over by some twisted handler who thinks he knows what the public wants. Alas, there is hope, for even this cynic can read the paper and see that the number one seller is Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life.
I knew this would happen. Come on, NBC paid, what - a Billion - to air the Olympics? Did anyone really think we were not going to here Jim Gray say "Ian Thorpe goes for the gold in the 400 NEXT!" The problem is we live in a society that over values individualism. Don't have kids until you make enough money to hire a full-time sitter. Emmet Smith hands the ball to the ref? Are you kidding me! Face it, this will happen. Even if Thorpe feels it is wrong, he will be iced over by some twisted handler who thinks he knows what the public wants. Alas, there is hope, for even this cynic can read the paper and see that the number one seller is Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life.
