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 they had to have a lawyer come in and interpret THEIR rule so they could justify THEIR decision. If a person is DISQUALIFIED he/she should not be in the NEXT category to swim that event, it should go through the line of succession, like THEIR rules originally said it should be.
And by the way, yes money does strange things to people! But, do you think Stevens would have even considered it if no one offered him the money? Something tells me.....NOT!:D
And they had to have a lawyer come in and interpret THEIR rule so they could justify THEIR decision. If a person is DISQUALIFIED he/she should not be in the NEXT category to swim that event, it should go through the line of succession, like THEIR rules originally said it should be.
And by the way, yes money does strange things to people! But, do you think Stevens would have even considered it if no one offered him the money? Something tells me.....NOT!:D
