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 have to disagree with Shaky. What may be fair for Thorpe (letting him into the O's) is not fair for Stevens. If making a change is not fair for everyone, then it is not the right thing to do. I still believe the right thing to do is to let the guy who earned the spot on that particular day have the spot.
I have to disagree with Shaky. What may be fair for Thorpe (letting him into the O's) is not fair for Stevens. If making a change is not fair for everyone, then it is not the right thing to do. I still believe the right thing to do is to let the guy who earned the spot on that particular day have the spot.
