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 Shaky
Now, don't some of you have a Little League referee to sue for a bad call on one of your kids?
Actually this would fall in line with allowing Thorpe to swim. :) They did not like the call, so they overturned it.
Personally I teach the kids I coach that we have to honor the refs call even if we don't like it and that it is the coaches job to argue the call, not the kids, not the parents.
Since the refs are volunteers, it makes no point to argue, because they would not come back. :)
Originally posted by Shaky
Now, don't some of you have a Little League referee to sue for a bad call on one of your kids?
Actually this would fall in line with allowing Thorpe to swim. :) They did not like the call, so they overturned it.
Personally I teach the kids I coach that we have to honor the refs call even if we don't like it and that it is the coaches job to argue the call, not the kids, not the parents.
Since the refs are volunteers, it makes no point to argue, because they would not come back. :)
