sidelined

I’m not that much into the whole swimming bizzo but there was a piece of such pure stupidity in today’s SMH that has turned my attention (momentarily) away from the footy.
It was a piece featuring quotes from Brian Stehr, the coach of Nick D’Arcy who is facing charges for assaulting another swimmer in a [...]

Thorpe cleared of doping.
Retired Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe has been cleared by Australia’s drugs testing agency after recording an an abnormal test result last year.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) made the announcement during a press conference in Melbourne this afternoon.
Thorpe had provided ASADA with medical evidence in an attempt to clear his name of [...]

Wassup with that? Smoke? Fire? A trigger for early retirement? A consequence of a night out drinking beer? Or pawn in a political fight involving doping agencies and sporting Orgs, some overzealous and others not zealous enough?
Either way, it’s been interesting to observe all Australian, political, media and sporting classes circle the wagons in [...]

“I only hoped that I wanted to swim half as much as other people want me to.”
So a glittering swimming career ends, at the tender age of 24. As Thorpe has apparently said, ‘I’m a 24 year old, and I’m only just 24 as well.’ I guess it’s a ripe old age if one has [...]

There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth, regarding the scheduling of the finals of some Olympic events to the morning in order to satisfy American TV commitments. I can’t say I disagree with the sentiment, but the Olympic story is now about paying the piper, having prostituted themselves on the alter of the [...]