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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And yet Thorpe is STILL the best swimmer they have in that event.
What's great about this discussion is that those who think he shouldn't swim have already lost. He's going to swim, and I chuckle gleefully about that. All this righteous indignation won't stop it.
Now, don't some of you have a Little League referee to sue for a bad call on one of your kids?
And yet Thorpe is STILL the best swimmer they have in that event.
What's great about this discussion is that those who think he shouldn't swim have already lost. He's going to swim, and I chuckle gleefully about that. All this righteous indignation won't stop it.
Now, don't some of you have a Little League referee to sue for a bad call on one of your kids?
