Emily Seebohm broke down after getting silver saying she had let her family down
Bit over the top imo, he still achieved something the majority of athletes/people never achieve by competing at the olympics, so I would hardly call him a loser.
She is my Olympics hero atm she won silver but wanted gold. A pity more athletes didn't have that drive.....
Too many these days saying: at least I made the final or I'm happy with Bronze
or I did my best (anyone who says this very rarely does IMO)
How did he pay his dues? He wriggled his way into bankruptcy in order to avoid paying damages to Cowley, whose face or life will never be the same.He made a mistake and paid his dues for it
Reminds me of Duncan Armstrongs Gold Medal swim, he took 5 seconds of his personal best .
I guess these days he would be under suspicion
John Leonard, the executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, yesterday compared Ye’s winning performance in the women’s 400m individual medley to Irish swimmer Michelle Smith, who won gold in the same event at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics but was banned from swimming for four years in 1998 for tampering with a urine sample. Smith, now De Bruin, always denied using performance enhancing drugs.
Ye sent shock waves through her sport on Saturday when she set the first swimming world record of these Olympics, and in doing so swam the final 50m freestyle faster than American swimmer Ryan Lochte managed in his final leg when he won the same race in the men’s event
When a young woman, in tears, declares herself a failure for missing the win by a tiny fraction of a second it's time to take a serious look at this whole sporting festival imo.Emily Seebohm broke down after getting silver saying she had let her family down
When a young woman, in tears, declares herself a failure for missing the win by a tiny fraction of a second it's time to take a serious look at this whole sporting festival imo.
Some small advance would be served if reporters gave the contestants 20 seconds or so to recover themselves before thrusting a microphone in their faces with an inane question.
When a young woman, in tears, declares herself a failure for missing the win by a tiny fraction of a second it's time to take a serious look at this whole sporting festival imo.
Some small advance would be served if reporters gave the contestants 20 seconds or so to recover themselves before thrusting a microphone in their faces with an inane question.
He's the type where Daddy always comes to the rescue. Take one look at him.How did he pay his dues? He wriggled his way into bankruptcy in order to avoid paying damages to Cowley, whose face or life will never be the same.
How did he pay his dues? He wriggled his way into bankruptcy in order to avoid paying damages to Cowley, whose face or life will never be the same.
Criminal conviction, missed an Olympics after making the team, missed a world championships, lost any chance at sponsors, which is more then most people pay when convicted of assault. Like it or not that is how our society punishes people for things like assault. By paying his dues I mean penalty, punishment whatever you want to call it.
I'm not saying I agree with what he did or the punishments handed out or the whole bankruptcy thing as I believe he should pay something, all I was saying was I admire that he put his head down and never gave up on his goals and continued to work hard - I don't admire what he did to put himself in the position in the first place.
In a way it probably would have been easier for him to go away and hide and give up on his sporting career or if the AOC had banned him for life. Considering the abuse he has received just on this board I'm sure he cops plenty where ever he goes so I again admire that he is willing to face all that, more then what most cowards who have done similar acts do.
A SECOND athlete has come forward with claims he was bashed by the embattled Olympic swimmer Nick D'Arcy.
The Queensland ironman Tim Peach told Channel 9 yesterday that he was left with a broken nose and two black eyes after an altercation with D'Arcy outside a bar in Mooloolaba 18 months ago, but he refused to press charges.
D'Arcy yesterday issued a statement saying that his alleged assault last Sunday on the former swimmer Simon Cowley was an "unfortunate isolated incident which occurred at the Loft Bar".
But Peach, admitting he was drunk when then pair clashed in September 2006, said D'Arcy hit him about 10 times after they had been "mouthing off at each other. We had a bit of history over a girl."
Peach told The Sunshine Coast Daily: "It was a bashing, not a one-on-one stoush. The photos speak for themselves."
Peach went to the swimmer's home the next day and was impressed with his father, Justin D'Arcy, a surgeon, who had organised X-rays and reimbursement for his time off work.
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