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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Gull:D We could debate this one for hours, and you will never convince me that what Thorpe is doing is right! If it were Coughlin, Kirk, Crocker or Phelps I would still say the same thing! He had his chance, he "stuffed up"!
The ref at the meet had the intestinal fortitude to DQ the world's fastest man in the 400! The world's fastest man should have the intestinal fortitude to take his lumps and learn from it! IMHO of course:D
Gull:D We could debate this one for hours, and you will never convince me that what Thorpe is doing is right! If it were Coughlin, Kirk, Crocker or Phelps I would still say the same thing! He had his chance, he "stuffed up"!
The ref at the meet had the intestinal fortitude to DQ the world's fastest man in the 400! The world's fastest man should have the intestinal fortitude to take his lumps and learn from it! IMHO of course:D
