Olympic swimmers Dean Kent, Corney Swanepoel and Cameron Gibson were expelled from the New Zealand team following an incident which embarrassed a teammate.
The three experienced Olympians took a photograph of the drunk teammate sitting on the toilet in a prank at a social function late last week before showing it to other teammates.
Their actions were deemed inappropriate by New Zealand team chef de mission Dave Currie, who suspended Kent, Swanepoel and Gibson from the team yesterday and expelled them from the Olympic Village.
They spent their final night in Beijing at a neighbouring hotel and weren’t invited to a final team function.
I think this is ridicules that they suspended and that the New Zealand team chef shouldn’t have taken it so far. I think they made a big deal about nothing and what they do, unless it is something big is their choose and shouldn’t be punished for it as everyone makes mistakes.
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September 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I think I support your opinion but I guess the final question is how do you decide what id fun and what is something which requires some sort of ‘punishment’!