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Originally Posted by Miaplacidus
I suppose, although in other endeavours this might just get labelled as clever strategy. If we don't like the rules, or how they're being applied, we should change them.
Now let's go and smash some windows... Ooo, I'm feeling a bit whoozy...
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I like how his team mates commented to the media with statments like "we'll rally around him" and "he has our support" following his drunken antics. If I was his team mate I would distance myself from him and shame him - he is no team mate of mine. kind of like when AFL footballers are accused of rape/drunkenness/bad public behaviour etc, and their teammates, coaches and clubs jump to their defense with similar comments. In fact his whole team should be sent home - they are a "team" aren't they? make them all pay for his behaviour.
Oh, but then I hear the other comments made today on talkback radio: "they're under a lot of pressure" and "cut them some slack". Well a lot of us are under just as much pressure with our jobs, incomes, financial pressures, shiftwork, raising families, etc etc, without the financial backing of an elite Melbourne rowing club and it is no excuse to get drunk and damage property.
I'm over these trumped-up sports people who think they are God's gift to the country.
Time to wind down the Olympics or make them hold it in one permanent location - say Greece for example.