Hi John.

27-Apr-04 17:37:45, John Tserkezis wrote to All


 JT> c0{at}Station105 GMT Gecko/2004031 From: John Tserkezis
 JT>  Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo
 JT> 

 JT> Brenton wrote:
 >> Hi Folks,  Let me preface this message by saying that I have
 >> absolutely no interest in sports, so whatever the outcome, I'm not
 >> really bothered one way or the
 JT> other

 JT> 

 JT> This is my take on it:

 JT> As far as I'm aware, there are only n number of places for a given
 JT> country for sportspersons go to the olymics.

 JT> That other bloke was plenty good enough to go, but, owing to the
 JT> probability that Thorpe is better, the team managers had every
 JT> intention of having one of those spots occupied by Thorpe.

 JT> Generally speaking, if you fuck up on one of the trials, providing
 JT> you're still otherwise eligible to make it to the olympics, they
 JT> don't send you, because, well, you fucked up.  And if you fucked
 JT> up once, you can fuck up again.  And there's no chance the team
 JT> managers are going to send a fuckup to the olymics, when they have
 JT> a eligible champion Thorpe on their hands.

 JT> While technically, he *could* have told them all to fuck off and
 JT> just gone on his merry way to the olympics, he didn't, he gave up
 JT> his spot to Thorpie.  But I don't think for a second the media had
 JT> anything to do with it.
 JT> However, if this other guy was YOU, and YOU had your very own spot
 JT> on the team to go to the olymics, would you give it up?  Hell no,
 JT> you'd have to be a stupid lunatic- you are after all good enough
 JT> for the team, you're good enough to compete.

he's not staying home he's still going there to compete in one of the
swimming relays.

 JT> *I* think, they "sweetened" his stay home deal with a bit of money
 JT> rather than fame

 7's paying him to do some commenting...

 -=> Bye <=-

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