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.
Originally posted by Scansy
I don't know if it is righteous indignation on my part. And it isn't just a robotic "that's the rule". It is the fact that it doesn't feel right to me. Never will.
And you can't say flat out that Thorpe swimming is the right thing, just as I can't say that Stevens swimming is obviously the right thing. This is a massive gray blob of an issue.
This statement is totally confusing. It would seem to me that the small rules obsessed group would be overjoyed that decorum and rules were followed. Since the Australians have followed the rules and Thorpe can and will participate, why aren't you happy that society has been preserved?
Originally posted by Scansy
I don't know if it is righteous indignation on my part. And it isn't just a robotic "that's the rule". It is the fact that it doesn't feel right to me. Never will.
And you can't say flat out that Thorpe swimming is the right thing, just as I can't say that Stevens swimming is obviously the right thing. This is a massive gray blob of an issue.
This statement is totally confusing. It would seem to me that the small rules obsessed group would be overjoyed that decorum and rules were followed. Since the Australians have followed the rules and Thorpe can and will participate, why aren't you happy that society has been preserved?
