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 want to see Thorpe swim at the Olympics, just as i want to see Mark Foster swim there.
I have a healthy disrespect for rules, beurocracy ( how do you spell that word ! ) and the people who make them. Why should a rule stop Australia sending the person who is the best in the world at that event.
Rules are meant to be broken however laws must be obeyed. ! I guess running my own business for decades has given me this attitude.
My wife used to work at the University of British Columbia, Canada. There you were not allowed to even change a lightbulb, the janitors union would strike if you did that, Crazy !!
Let him go and let him swim. I would argue the same if it was Crocker or Phelps in the same position and i guess 99% of the USMS posters, in that situation, would be looking to find a way to see them swim at the Olympics !
I want to see Thorpe swim at the Olympics, just as i want to see Mark Foster swim there.
I have a healthy disrespect for rules, beurocracy ( how do you spell that word ! ) and the people who make them. Why should a rule stop Australia sending the person who is the best in the world at that event.
Rules are meant to be broken however laws must be obeyed. ! I guess running my own business for decades has given me this attitude.
My wife used to work at the University of British Columbia, Canada. There you were not allowed to even change a lightbulb, the janitors union would strike if you did that, Crazy !!
Let him go and let him swim. I would argue the same if it was Crocker or Phelps in the same position and i guess 99% of the USMS posters, in that situation, would be looking to find a way to see them swim at the Olympics !
