Goals have been clearly set for some time so those who qualify to the standards we’ve set will know they’re capable of returning from Athens having achieved something – they’re not simply going to the Olympic Games as excess baggage.
This is a quote from a very Henryk Lakomy, Sports science & fitness director at British Swimming.
So they feel that Mark Foster is excess baggage ! :mad:
He could win a medal, but i guess we will never know and that is one less medal for Britain. Ah well, there is always the breaststroke. Which seems to be the only stroke that UK swimmers can do well !:mad:
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Either individual countries are free to pick their teams or they aren't. We can discuss and argue about what is fair till the cows come home but that's what it comes down to. The alternative is what? The IOC setting a uniform method that all countries have to follow? I don't know about everyone else but I'd sure hate to see that even as a suggestion. It's hard to watch any great athlete fail, whatever fail means, but it happens all the time. It's part of what makes sport a great thing. Nobody wins all the time. There are no absolutes(except that Thorpe will swim the 400)
and nobody is owed anything and nobody deserves anything. Either Foster and Stevens come out of this stronger or they decide they're done. That may be cold but it's a fact. People end their careers after the trials all the time.
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Either individual countries are free to pick their teams or they aren't. We can discuss and argue about what is fair till the cows come home but that's what it comes down to. The alternative is what? The IOC setting a uniform method that all countries have to follow? I don't know about everyone else but I'd sure hate to see that even as a suggestion. It's hard to watch any great athlete fail, whatever fail means, but it happens all the time. It's part of what makes sport a great thing. Nobody wins all the time. There are no absolutes(except that Thorpe will swim the 400)
and nobody is owed anything and nobody deserves anything. Either Foster and Stevens come out of this stronger or they decide they're done. That may be cold but it's a fact. People end their careers after the trials all the time.
