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 aquageek
This harping on sportsmanship and good-consciousness is naive. This is the Olympics and people do what they have to do win. Sorry, that's the way it is, for the US, Lower East Croatia and Australia.
There are a lot of things that "the way it is" that are not right. If we just accept them because "that's the way it is" we are giving tacit approval.
Yes, I would like to see the fastest in the Olympics. But I think you have to earn your position.
If Thorpe was to false start in a prelim at the Olympics, should he be given a second chance then too? Where do you draw the line?
Originally posted by aquageek
This harping on sportsmanship and good-consciousness is naive. This is the Olympics and people do what they have to do win. Sorry, that's the way it is, for the US, Lower East Croatia and Australia.
There are a lot of things that "the way it is" that are not right. If we just accept them because "that's the way it is" we are giving tacit approval.
Yes, I would like to see the fastest in the Olympics. But I think you have to earn your position.
If Thorpe was to false start in a prelim at the Olympics, should he be given a second chance then too? Where do you draw the line?
