Take two - D’Arcy Olympic team membership terminated
June 11, 2008
The Australian Olympic Committee Executive have unanimously decided to terminate Nick D’Arcy’s membership of the Australian Olympic team. The decision was announced on the Australian Olympic website a short time ago.
The meeting to decide D’Arcy’s fate was held in Sydney with video conference links to Melbourne, Brisbane and Launceston and was attended by the following members of the AOC Executive:
Ron Harvey Chairman
Kevan Gosper (by video conference - Melbourne)
Phil Coles
Peter Montgomery
Michael Wenden (by video conference - Brisbane)
Helen Brownlee
Doug Donoghue
Russ Withers (by video conference - Melbourne)
Lynne Bates
Ian Chesterman (by video conference - Launceston)
Nick Green (by video conference - Melbourne)
Tom King
Victoria Roberts
Craig Phillips (non voting Executive member)
After D’Arcy addressed the committee they discussed the matter amongst themselves before voting on the following resolution:
That Nicholas D’Arcy’s membership of the 2008 Australian Olympic Team be terminated.
As the resolution was passed unanimously D’Arcy once again finds himself out the Australian Olympic swim team for Beijing.
It is expected that D’Arcy will again appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He continues to train with the faint hope that he will be included in the team for Beijing.
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It was good to see that this was unanimous decision which sends a very clear message to upcoming sportsmen and women. Violence, aggression etc. in or out of the sports arena are simply mutually exclusive with the Olympian spirit and all sporting endeavours. Even had he been provoked, the depth of anger which resulted in such damage to another human being is very worrying. He is in critical need of anger management and that will take a very long time before his 20 years of aggressive reaction can be turned around. His parents are falling short of their duty by promoting his position as tenable.