Fair crack!!!

[Mulgabill]

That's our taxes at work and a big yawn! Let me know when it's over!!!

[scottbr]

and we aussies will be proud of the winners (we like winners)..

Unless it's someone like Nick D'arcy.

No sponsor will ever touch him.

Those two swimmers didn't do anything wrong. They just did something dumb. The angle being run by much of the media I have read is 'How could these two blokes be so dumb.'

[Woody1]

I agree with the Media using anything to get a story.

What I cannot understand is our justice system. How a bloke can go and smash some one else's face in , get convicted then declare himself bankrupt to avoid his obligations to the bloke whose face was all smashed up and next thing you see him over in America with not a care in the world!!! and obviously with plenty of money
I hope he rots in Hell

[Ruddy]

What if Michael Dimond and his mate were pictured wearing Speedos.........

[wheelinround]

[Geoff Dean]

Personally, I think neither of them should have been on the team, but not for the gun thing.

Darcy because he is a thug, and a coward. Declaring himself bankrupt so as not to have to pay for his crime is despicable.

Monk because he lied to cover his own stupidity when he fell off his skateboard and broke his elbow (?). To then invent a hit run and waste valuable police resources tracking down a non existent crime shows what sort of character he has.

Both of them are bottom feeders, and neither deserve any public money so they can pursue their Olympic dreams. AOC should have banned both of them for life.

[fxst]

I agree with Geoff on this pair. I don't think we should have them on the team but it seems anything for a medal is our motto. If he can travel all over the world he can pay up. If the Aus Olympic crowd did the right thing they would say no bankrupts can be on the team the same as fed pollies. That would change his mind as he thinks winning a medal will make all the fuss die down. Simon should just keep suing this guy as soon as the he is out of his bankruptcy and keep at it ..would make his life harder We don't need thugs and liars to be role models for the kids today they have enough idiots to aspire to already
Pete

[Sebastiaan56]

It just goes to show how hard up the media is for a story at the moment. Swimming scandals are a bit weak really. Football, now they know how to throw on a scandal!

As for using bankruptcy to avoid debts... Ive been touched up a number of times by customers running away from their debts. This is one area of law that really needs to be changed. Theft is theft.

[acmegridley]

Pehaps a shade of Ivan Milat, similar pose I remember

[jimbur]

Pehaps a shade of Ivan Milat, similar pose I remember

That's what struck me about it. Before anyone jumps in, I've shot most of my life.
The trouble is that the self-centred attitude apparently displayed by these two is often the attitude that wins medals. It also is the same attitude that journalists display to get a story at all costs.
Cheers,
Jim

[Ian Smith]

The trouble is that the self-centred attitude apparently displayed by these two is often the attitude that wins medals.

Absolutely. I have this view that, in the main, if someone is very, very good at something, they are probably not much good at anything else.

[fxst]

I don't deny they are very good at what they do I just don't like the way they try to cover what they did with excuses or other methods of getting out of paying for damages cause.
Pete

[jimbur]

I don't deny they are very good at what they do I just don't like the way they try to cover what they did with excuses or other methods of getting out of paying for damages cause.
Pete

I'm not disagreeing with you Pete. The problem is the tendency to create 'heroes' out of flawed material. But then that is the media, pump them up as heroes and then there's often the possibility of knocking them down again because they aren't perfect. Sells advertising space coming and going.
Cheers,
Jim

[Bob38S]

They both need their backsides kicked up around their ears for unsafe gun handling this really is their only guilt in this instance. You only engage the trigger when you are aiming at a target - unless you wish to destroy what you are aiming at keep your fingers out. If there is a crime or something offensive to genuine people who shoot, then this is it.

Overall, they probably are getting too much oxygen over the whole "show".

I fully support and am very proud of the legitimate shooters in the olympics - remember shooting has been one of the few sports included in every olympics.

[Bushmiller]

I fully support and am very proud of the legitimate shooters in the olympics - remember shooting has been one of the few sports included in every olympics.

Straight shooters even .

Trouble is, Messers D'Arcy and Monk are very unsympathetic persons. They probably haven't infringed any laws (with the gun picture), but they are the classic, juvenile sportsmen behaving badly.

I am pretty certain that the AOC give them basic instruction on expected behaviour as I saw a snippet on TV about this. I presume there is a code of conduct and if they are not prepared to follow that, they should make their own way to the olympics and not at the taxpayer's pleasure.

Of course the AOC has had it's problems and indiscretions too (ask Dawn Fraser about that). The essence of the Olympics disappeared with commercialism. It seems to start with the disgraceful bidding process to host the venue, and it just all spirals downhill from there.

Whoops, I see the hobby horse breaking into a canter!

Back to D'Arcy and Monk. They are lucky I was not on the board or they would never even be allowed in a back yard pool.

Regards
Paul