Shane Gould, winner of 3 three swimming gold medals at the 1972 Olympics, is competing in the Australian Olympic selection trials currently being held in Sydney. Shane will be swimming in the heats of the 50M butterfly on this Thursday.
How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to promote her swimming business? If she were, it wouldn't be in keeping with the spirit of the Olympic movement, right?
martin
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Shane Gould, winner of 3 three swimming gold medals at the 1972 Olympics, is competing in the Australian Olympic selection trials currently being held in Sydney. Shane will be swimming in the heats of the 50M butterfly on this Thursday.
you mean Speedo is providing the suits for pure charitable reasons?
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How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to promote her swimming business? If she were, it wouldn't be in keeping with the spirit of the Olympic movement, right?
Shane is a legend. Not only did she do this event, she also swam the Rottness channel in Perth with one of our para- olympic swimmers in February as a duo (10km each). If you look at the photos of her meet at the Australian swimming site, you'll see that she's wearing her local swim club cap. She is "not" an Olympic sell out in anyway.
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How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to promote her swimming business? If she were, it wouldn't be in keeping with the spirit of the Olympic movement, right?
martin
Gregory Toomey said:
Shane Gould, winner of 3 three swimming gold medals at the 1972 Olympics,
is competing in the Australian Olympic selection trials currently being held in Sydney.
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Shane will be swimming in the heats of the 50M butterfly on this
Shane is a legend. Not only did she do this event, she also swam the Rottness channel in Perth with one of our para- olympic swimmers in February as a duo (10km each). If you look at the photos of her meet at the Australian swimming site, you'll see that she's wearing her local swim club cap. She is "not" an Olympic sell out in anyway.
But, how do you know she isn't doing this as a way to promote her swimming business? If she were, it wouldn't be in keeping with the spirit of the Olympic movement, right?
I know she is a legend.
martin
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How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to promote her swimming business? If she were, it wouldn't be in keeping with the spirit of the Olympic movement, right?
martin
Gregory Toomey said:
Shane Gould, winner of 3 three swimming gold medals at the 1972 Olympics,
is competing in the Australian Olympic selection trials currently being held in Sydney.
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Shane will be swimming in the heats of the 50M butterfly on this
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How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to promote her swimming business?
good on her.
she deserves the rewards.
Except that about thirty years ago, she wouldn't be allowed to compete in the Olympics, because she is a professional. The point is they changed the rules, so she isn't cheating. Thirty years ago she would be a cheater, and you would be heaping scorn on her.
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If she were, it wouldn't be in keeping with the spirit of the Olympic movement, right?
if she'd made it to athens it would've exemplified that spirit.
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Shane Gould, winner of 3 three swimming gold medals at the 1972
Olympics, is competing in the Australian Olympic selection trials currently being held in Sydney.
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Shane will be swimming in the heats of the 50M butterfly on this
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How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to promote her swimming business?
good on her.
she deserves the rewards.
Except that about thirty years ago,
it's 2004, deal with it.
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she wouldn't be allowed to compete in the Olympics, because she is a professional. The point is they changed the rules, so she isn't cheating. Thirty years ago she would be a cheater, and you would be heaping scorn on her.
they're all professionals these days.
the ideal you subscribe to is a myth.
thorpe makes more in a year than gould did in a lifetime.
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Except that about thirty years ago, she wouldn't be allowed to compete in the Olympics, because she is a professional. The point is they changed the rules, so she isn't cheating. Thirty years ago she would be a cheater, and you would be heaping scorn on her.
I don't think your argument holds water. (I love bad puns!)
Shane is not a professional competitive swimmer (are there any?). She's a professional swim instructor.
The old rule against participation by professionals applied to people who were competing in their sports as professionals. It has always been recognized that Olympic competitors have to have a means of supporting themselves. I've never heard of anyone being barred from Olympic swimming because they were employed as a lifeguard, either.
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Ngumba Zuleke said:
some top-poster <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]... > How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to > promote her swimming business?
good on her.
she deserves the rewards.
Except that about thirty years ago,
it's 2004, deal with it.
I am. Let's remove the prohibition against performance enhancing drugs and be done with it. You subscribe to the ideal of a level playing field, but you don't deal with it.
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she wouldn't be allowed to compete in the Olympics, because she is a professional. The point is they changed the rules, so she isn't cheating. Thirty years ago she would be a cheater, and you would be heaping scorn on her.
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"Ngumba Zuleke" <[email hidden]> wrote:
> >some top-poster <[email hidden]> wrote in message >"]news:[email hidden]... >> How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to >> promote her swimming business? > >good on her. > >she deserves the rewards.
Except that about thirty years ago,
it's 2004, deal with it.
I am. Let's remove the prohibition against performance enhancing drugs and be done with it.
you have evidence shane gould takes performance enhancing drugs ?
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You subscribe to the ideal of a level playing field, but you don't deal with it.
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she wouldn't be allowed to compete in the Olympics, because she is a professional. The point is they changed the rules, so she isn't cheating. Thirty years ago she
would
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be a cheater, and you would be heaping scorn on her.
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Martin W. Smith <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]... > "Ngumba Zuleke" <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > > >some top-poster <[email hidden]> wrote in message > >"]news:[email hidden]... > >> How do you know she isn't doing this as a way to > >> promote her swimming business? > > > >good on her. > > > >she deserves the rewards. > > Except that about thirty years ago,
it's 2004, deal with it.
I am. Let's remove the prohibition against performance enhancing drugs and be done with it.
you have evidence shane gould takes performance enhancing drugs ?
No, why are you insinuating that she is using drugs?
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You subscribe to the ideal of a level playing field, but you don't deal with it.
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> she wouldn't be allowed to compete in the Olympics, > because she is a professional. The point is they > changed the rules, so she isn't cheating. Thirty years > ago she
would
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> be a cheater, and you would be heaping scorn on her.
Take my advice...don't prolong this discussion further. The other end is the channel troll that will argue against you for the simple sake of arguing...
Take my advice...don't prolong this discussion further. The other end is the channel troll that will argue against you for the simple sake of arguing...
ok. thanks. I didn't know he was a troll. I thought he was African.
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Except that about thirty years ago, she wouldn't be allowed to compete in the Olympics, because she is a professional. The point is they changed the rules, so she isn't cheating. Thirty years ago she would be a cheater, and you would be heaping scorn on her.
I don't think your argument holds water. (I love bad puns!)
Shane is not a professional competitive swimmer (are there any?). She's a professional swim instructor.
The old rule against participation by professionals applied to people who were competing in their sports as professionals. It has always been recognized that Olympic competitors have to have a means of supporting themselves. I've never heard of anyone being barred from Olympic swimming because they were employed as a lifeguard, either.
Not so - there was a time when any money received through sport, beit sweeping the pool deck, teaching, lifeguard or even playing another sport for cash, would proclude you from swimming in amateur competition.
