the world of gayeDeal with it dad !!!
April 20th 2008 08:39
A lot has been said in the press about swimmer Nick D'Arcey and his dream being over. Now I know that Aussies love their sport, and a lot of people are probably thinking "poor boy, they have been to tough" , but what if it was your son who was on the end of the beating Simon Cowley took.
I'd say that would make him a thug, wouldn't you?
What I can't believe is the father of this young man. In both interviews I have seen his father conduct he has blamed the media for ruining his family and his son's career, he has asked to be left alone because they are suffering, but not once have I heard him say, "I love my son but he did the wrong thing". Well I have news for him - YOUR SON DID THE WRONG THING. Like a lot of other people in today's society they just don't like to take responsibility for their actions. how do kids learn what's acceptable behavior if no one tells them when they are in the wrong.
He may have trained all his life for the Olympics and it may break his heart, but like it or not he IS representing us all and I personally don't want other nations to think we condone this behavior. I wonder how his father would feel if his little boy was the one who needed surgery because of these injuries, I can't imagine he would so easily let the matter go.
George Orwell once said - "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
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