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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Everyone keeps asking what rule was broken....I believe in any swim RULE book, the start is governed by a rule...correct? So when Ian DQ'd (Disqualified...see previous post about this), he in fact broke a rule and should be ineligible for further competition in the event he DQ'd in. In swimming, if you get DQ'd at sectionals you DO NOT get to advance...same process here!
Everyone keeps asking what rule was broken....I believe in any swim RULE book, the start is governed by a rule...correct? So when Ian DQ'd (Disqualified...see previous post about this), he in fact broke a rule and should be ineligible for further competition in the event he DQ'd in. In swimming, if you get DQ'd at sectionals you DO NOT get to advance...same process here!
