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
A couple of things:
1. In the abscence of a quotable rule that is being violated, your argument is much less potent. Taking the moral high ground is admirable. But, your morals aren't necessarily those of others. Nor have you proven the Australians are doing anything other than follow their own rules, which, they are allowed to do.
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Dang it. You want us to prove what we are saying. That's not fair.;)
Seriously, you are right in this regard. Those of us who are on the side of Thorpe not swimming are assuming that there is a rule broken. I don't know if a rule is being broken for sure. Does anyone know what the Aussie rule says?
Originally posted by aquageek
A couple of things:
1. In the abscence of a quotable rule that is being violated, your argument is much less potent. Taking the moral high ground is admirable. But, your morals aren't necessarily those of others. Nor have you proven the Australians are doing anything other than follow their own rules, which, they are allowed to do.
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Dang it. You want us to prove what we are saying. That's not fair.;)
Seriously, you are right in this regard. Those of us who are on the side of Thorpe not swimming are assuming that there is a rule broken. I don't know if a rule is being broken for sure. Does anyone know what the Aussie rule says?
