Australian swimmer D’Arcy waiting for AOC outcome
June 11, 2008
Australian Olympic team swimmer has pleaded his case to the Australian Olympic Committee executive in Sydney. He now faces an anxious wait before the committee makes the announcement which is expected later today.
The lawyer for D’Arcy, Jack Leitner, says they had a fair hearing and it went well.
D’Arcy, faced the AOC board, which consists of Olympian and veteran IOC members, in a bid to take his place in the Australian swimming team for the Beijing Games.
D’Arcy had earlier been banned from the team by AOC president John Coates back in April for bringing himself and the Australian team into disrepute following a nightclub altercation with retired swimmer Simon Cowley, just hours after being named in the Australian swim team for Beijing.
After D’Arcy appealed the decision by John Coates to kick him off the team, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Coates did not have the authority to terminate the swimmer’s membership of the team and the AOC executive must vote on such matters.
D’Arcy appears in court later this month to try to clear his name as he faces a charge of recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm on Cowley at a Sydney bar on March 30.
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