From: "Brenton" 
Reply-To: Brenton , Fidonet AVtech Echo
	

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 other.

With all of the media hoo-haa over this thing with Ian Thorpe being disqualified
from the 400metre Olympic Trials, I think I have missed something.  I thought
the media went nuts because at the trials Thorpe fell into the pool and under
current IOC rules he was disqualified.  So, they ran the race without him and
the bloke who won was given a free ticket to Athens or wherever the Olympics are
going to be.  It seems that before the bloke who won the trial even got out of
the pool, the media were pushing the line that he should surrended the place he
just earned and give it to Ian Thorpe.  Then yesterday he does just that.  So,
what happens here, does he just say, " I give up, I don't want to go, give my
place to Thorpe " ... How does this work.  I mean either the bloke was good
enough to possibly beat Thorpe or he wasn't.  If he wasn't then how in the hell
did he get into the trials ?  Now that he has done his dummy spit, shouldn't his
place go to the bloke who came second ? After all, Thorpe was disqualified. So
how can he even be considered when he didn't even swim in the 400 meters at the
trials ?

Confused, Brenton


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