I am not sure we realize how bad this will be for swimming and US swimming.
This will change how everybody looks at the US team from now on. The circumstances do not matter to the casual sports fan - they will only remember "US swimmer caught".
The medal winners will lose a lot of money on endorsements - USA swimming was the "clean" sport, the poster child of how to do it right. Not any more - any advertiser will now look at swimmers differently.
What about US trials - this will change how quickly the testing has to come back and how some 3rd place finisher may train after trials.
US Swimming - they have already screwed this up on 10 different levels. No press conference, 3 weeks after the fact, some web forum starts leaking the story, coaches and swimmers at the Olympic training camp know and they expect to keep this quiet ? Amateurs
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Too many on here that can't read. Read # three, it is a reoprt by USA track and field. Johnson was caught at the Games the others were caught before the games but it was swept under the table.
Gull I do not drink except when on Vacation. I happen to limit myself to one or two drinks at that time. You should be so good. I guess drunks can't read too well here.
Read item three again www.cbc.ca/.../top10.html put on your glasses you may eventually understand what I am saying. It is about USA users.
www.abc.net.au/.../s155405.htmquery.nytimes.com/.../fullpage.html
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Too many on here that can't read. Read # three, it is a reoprt by USA track and field. Johnson was caught at the Games the others were caught before the games but it was swept under the table.
Gull I do not drink except when on Vacation. I happen to limit myself to one or two drinks at that time. You should be so good. I guess drunks can't read too well here.
Read item three again www.cbc.ca/.../top10.html put on your glasses you may eventually understand what I am saying. It is about USA users.
www.abc.net.au/.../s155405.htmquery.nytimes.com/.../fullpage.html
