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.
I was under the impression that there were rules, and Australia chose not to follow them in their selection process.
Well, if there are no rules in their selection process, let him swim.
It's their country. However, if they are skirting the rules think of the irony- an island nation originally populated by convicts (aside from the aborigines of course) and they still can't obey society's rules ;) (I am poking fun, I have family there. Although I insist that they were guards back in the day not convicts!!!)
"bureauocracy"- I believe. Don't quote me though!
By the way, I know I rarely drive the speed limit, I just never get caught. With the Olympic selection process the whole world is watching. I think it's one thing to do it (break a rule) privately, another in public, let alone in front of the whole world. (Again that's assuming that they chose to skirt the rules).
Aquageek, you'll never be alone ;)
I was under the impression that there were rules, and Australia chose not to follow them in their selection process.
Well, if there are no rules in their selection process, let him swim.
It's their country. However, if they are skirting the rules think of the irony- an island nation originally populated by convicts (aside from the aborigines of course) and they still can't obey society's rules ;) (I am poking fun, I have family there. Although I insist that they were guards back in the day not convicts!!!)
"bureauocracy"- I believe. Don't quote me though!
By the way, I know I rarely drive the speed limit, I just never get caught. With the Olympic selection process the whole world is watching. I think it's one thing to do it (break a rule) privately, another in public, let alone in front of the whole world. (Again that's assuming that they chose to skirt the rules).
Aquageek, you'll never be alone ;)
