Having just been named Australia’s greatest ever sportswoman, Dawn Fraser was entitled to just a little grandstanding yesterday.
While few expected her to call for a life ban on the Stillnox Six, a poll claiming tens of thousands of respondents showed strong support for the suggestion.
It seems the public is fed up not merely with cheating sportsmen, but those who cheat themselves and their nation out of an expected gold medal via drug experimentation.
If the offenders hoped their excuse of ”bonding gone wrong” might have assuaged critics, it seems to have backfired.
Public sympathy for them seems zero.
That is, if the swimmers can be believed after their recent admission of lying in a previous cover-up of the incident.
Of course, Dawn is right when she says the relay members’ behaviour is a disgraceful example to younger swimmers.
And now we are left with an amusing irony that the Stillnox issue shows as much resistance to bedding down as the brand’s abusers.
Let’s hope once Dawn’s spray of tough-love is dealt with and we’ve all got the moral outrage out of our systems, there’ll be one collective (natural) yawn while those in charge of dispensing justice get on with it.
Not everyone polled was in total support of the three-time gold medal winner.
Some indignantly cited Dawn’s own larrikin days which culminated in her banning for allegedly taking a flag from the 1964 Olympic village in Tokyo.
In response to this, Dawn feistily replied that flag snaffling was a far less serious offence than drug experimentation.
Now everyone seems to have their opinion on this issue. But for me, I am tired of it.
Is there anyone else who is tired of this story?
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