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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Originally posted by tjburk
The obvious choice is the next person in the line of 3rd drops out you take #4, not someone that didn't finish the race.
In 1996 Ron Karnuagh sued to try and get a spot on the US team. Karnaugh finished 4th in the 200 IM. Greg Brugess, who finished 2nd was ticketed for being intoixcated in public or some other mickey mouse thing and Karnaugh sued on the grounds that he was not embodying the Olympic Spirit. The reason Karnaugh wanted the spot was because the guy who finished 3rd had retired from the sport.
This really has nothing to do with the current situation other than the fact that what Karnaugh did was total bush-league and everytime I have a chance to bring it up I do.
Originally posted by tjburk
The obvious choice is the next person in the line of 3rd drops out you take #4, not someone that didn't finish the race.
In 1996 Ron Karnuagh sued to try and get a spot on the US team. Karnaugh finished 4th in the 200 IM. Greg Brugess, who finished 2nd was ticketed for being intoixcated in public or some other mickey mouse thing and Karnaugh sued on the grounds that he was not embodying the Olympic Spirit. The reason Karnaugh wanted the spot was because the guy who finished 3rd had retired from the sport.
This really has nothing to do with the current situation other than the fact that what Karnaugh did was total bush-league and everytime I have a chance to bring it up I do.
