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SKYCRUISER
07-Mar-06, 01:22pm
Thorpe out of Comm Games
Olympic and world champion swimmer Ian Thorpe has withdrawn from Australia's Commonwealth Games team due to illness.
An ill-looking Thorpe made the announcement at a press conference in Sydney this afternoon.
The five-time Olympic gold medallist has been suffering from bronchitis in addition to a mystery illness, which had severely curtailed his training since last month's Australian selection trials in Melbourne.
He recently underwent a series of medical tests, which were unable to determine the nature of the illness.
Thorpe was due to compete in the 100 metres and 200m freestyle events, as well as the three relays.
from what i just heard he apparently looks very ill..
I find it hard to believe that champion athletes like him can motivate themselves to compete in ho-hum competitions like the com games
looks like the mens team will win no medals then
Grandmaster
07-Mar-06, 01:49pm
fuck the Commonwealth Games is a joke, just a chance for Australia to kick the shit out of everyone and try and feel better about the shithouse nation that we are. Now we can compete at the Olympics this is so irrevelent, except for the athletes i guess..
I dont believe it, but I heard a rumour the other day that he has got AIDS.
Dont flame me, I am just telling y'all what I heard..
I dont believe it, but I heard a rumour the other day that he has got AIDS.
Dont flame me, I am just telling y'all what I heard..
from who?.........the rumour i mean
Dirty_Sanchez
07-Mar-06, 01:59pm
he dont have bronchitis its called bitch-itis the woman are gonna carry the swimmin team again
skywalkin_
07-Mar-06, 02:07pm
This was SMS'd to me on my 3 phone
"Breaking News: Thorpe Pulls Out"
:lol: x 100
Brother Al
07-Mar-06, 02:18pm
I reckon he's saving himself for more important comps like the world championships although he prolly is sick.
At least we wont have "Watch Ian Thorpe tonight @ 7pm carrying the hopes of a nation etc etc" ads every two seconds.
Dirty_Sanchez
07-Mar-06, 02:23pm
he didn't swim world champs he's too cool for that as well
baghdaddy
07-Mar-06, 06:08pm
I reckon he's saving himself for more important comps like the world championships although he prolly is sick.
He might be saving himself for hosting the Simpsons marathon.
I think channel 9 is having a coronary over this coz they just saw their ratings tank... Even lower.
Rest up thorpster. get better and eventually compete.
I don't know what it is aboput Thorpe.
Even though he seems like a down to earth and all round descent bloke from what i've seen, there's just something about his look that shits me.
and who cares about him anyway, he's had enough time in the limelight.
LennyNero
08-Mar-06, 12:15am
I reckon he's saving himself for more important comps like the world championships although he prolly is sick.
At least we wont have "Watch Ian Thorpe tonight @ 7pm carrying the hopes of a nation etc etc" ads every two seconds.
Didnt he sit out last years world championships because he 'needed a break'?
Im fed up with out pampered athletes, namely our swimmers.
Ill give Thorpe, Hacket and a few of the female swimmers some credit, but the rest of them are are fucken useless welfare leeches.
Who cares
Its only a sports carnival
More important shit to worry about than how many Gold medals Australia will win
OZZIE OZZIE OZZIE
krafty_x
08-Mar-06, 08:44am
I just hope the poor bugger gets well. It's frustrating to be debilitatingly ill and not know what the problem is.
k_x oxo
matty_m
08-Mar-06, 11:19am
IMO he is just a big softie... Gets a runny nose and decides to pull out... my good mate is competing in the Weightlifting at the Comm Games and the personal and financial heartache he went through to make the team was unbelievable and then someone who is paid MILLIONS of $$$ decides he is too cool to swim... Your swimming for your country thorpie.. I would think nothing less of him if he swam sick and missed the final or missed a medal.. shows a bit of heart and ticker that he actually had a crack...
IMO he is just a big softie... Gets a runny nose and decides to pull out... my good mate is competing in the Weightlifting at the Comm Games and the personal and financial heartache he went through to make the team was unbelievable and then someone who is paid MILLIONS of $$$ decides he is too cool to swim... Your swimming for your country thorpie.. I would think nothing less of him if he swam sick and missed the final or missed a medal.. shows a bit of heart and ticker that he actually had a crack...
Well said.
Hope your mate gets gold
Thats what its all about
phoneyhuh
08-Mar-06, 11:42am
news just in:
Thorpie says he's fully sick!
I don't know what it is aboput Thorpe.
Even though he seems like a down to earth and all round descent bloke from what i've seen, there's just something about his look that shits me.
and who cares about him anyway, he's had enough time in the limelight.He's one of the greatest athletes in the history of world sport. To think what he's accomplished at his age is absolutely phenomenal. "He's had enough time in the limelight" - what a ridiculous statement.
I also refuse to believe that he's faking illness just coz he doesn't wanna swim com games. If he wanted to "save himself" for world championships etc [which is ridiculous. Why does he need to save himself? It's not like the competitions are on top of each other] then he'd say so.
IMO he is just a big softie... Gets a runny nose and decides to pull out... my good mate is competing in the Weightlifting at the Comm Games and the personal and financial heartache he went through to make the team was unbelievable and then someone who is paid MILLIONS of $$$ decides he is too cool to swim... Your swimming for your country thorpie.. I would think nothing less of him if he swam sick and missed the final or missed a medal.. shows a bit of heart and ticker that he actually had a crack...Sometimes it's not always about missing a final or missing a medal. He's probably thinking about his health. I know so many swimmers [including myself] who trained full-on through illness, and ended up having weeks or even months off because their condition deteriorated. In the end, you end up missing more competitions and fucking up your training if you're not sensible about easing off when you're not well.
With Ian...i personally think his motivation levels are shot to shit and he's a bit over it all. I reckon he's lost the heart for swimming [in fact i think he lost it years ago when he left his coach Doug Frost] but just can't bring himself to retire. Quitting swimming and entering the "real world" is a really really hard and scary thing to do.
Anyway...as someone else mentioned, Ian isn' the entire Australian swimming team ;)
The women are swimming seriously fast times at the moment, which is a nice change. It's usually the female swimmers who're dragging the chain at the big events
Punk in Drublic
08-Mar-06, 01:34pm
I'm amazed at some of the expectations that people have.
Everyone gets sick occasionly, and there is nothing you can really do about it. If you're sick, you generally can't go to work. This effect is exacerbated if you are an elite athlete who relies on being fit to compete.
Why can't you just accept that he is sick so he can't swim....simple as that. Would you rather he competes and comes last because he is nowhere near his best?
I only get sick after massive benders..
You reckon thorpie went to the Future Music Festival and went to hard dancing to AVB?
Oh an by the way...it's more than a "runny nose"
Surely you saw him on tv? He looks awful
MadOogles
08-Mar-06, 01:52pm
Surely you saw him on tv? He looks awful
he sure does:
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/07/29/30spike,0.jpg
news just in:
Thorpie says he's fully sick!
:lol:
the funniest thing i noticed bout this whole thorpie saga (besides the fully sick joke :)) is the south african coach (ryk neethlings coach i think it was), came out in the papers yesterday morning claiming thorpie was "foxing" and playing mind games and it was all a big conspiracy and that australian sports people and teams are forever playing these games, then 2 hours later the story broke that he was out. haha what a muppet!!
how long has it been since Thorpe has actually swum in a high level competition?
either way its poor news for him, and he aint looking to grand. Not terribly surprised tho his situation has happend to many other athletes.
Lambretta
08-Mar-06, 05:10pm
Didnt he sit out last years world championships because he 'needed a break'?
Im fed up with out pampered athletes, namely our swimmers.
Ill give Thorpe, Hacket and a few of the female swimmers some credit, but the rest of them are are fucken useless welfare leeches.
I'm a troll and I live in a hole.
That has to be one of your more moronic posts Lenny. Still, the comedy value is almost worth the energy spent reading such drivel, so I'm only slightly down on the equasion.
Lambretta
08-Mar-06, 05:15pm
I cant believe some of the comments in this thread.
Some of you need a real fucking wake up call.
Thanks to Squee and Punk for actually talking some sense.
Thorpie is pretty ill. Having seen him on tv and in the press and reading that he struggled to swim 12 laps of a pool, I understand his decision to pull out of the games.
If he didnt want to compete he wouldnt have swum in the trials. He's sick.
His illness is a mystery and comments about his sexuality or rumours of anti immune deficiency syndrome do no one any good.
I hope Ian gets well soon and I hope that his illness brings more medal glory for the Poms :P
(only kidding, sif we're gonna win anything)
LennyNero
08-Mar-06, 07:47pm
Ive reconsidered my previous post regarding thorpe and in hindsight have come to the conclusion that i wasnt harsh enough on him.
The guys a little wuss. His illness is not a mystery at all, hes got bronchitis. If he wasnt such a nancy boy he would have put it all on the line for his country, the country thats supported him and made him rich and famous for paddling around a swimming pool. Footballers play with broken jaws, boxers fight with cut up faces and broken noses, but poor thorpe cant do 4 laps in a pool because hes got a cough.
There is no doubt he could have competed and maybe even won, and if he didnt he would have at least tried, but he plain quit.
If he was a real man he would have swam for his country until he sunk.
SKYCRUISER
08-Mar-06, 08:17pm
Ive reconsidered my previous post regarding thorpe and in hindsight have come to the conclusion that i wasnt harsh enough on him.
The guys a little wuss. His illness is not a mystery at all, hes got bronchitis. If he wasnt such a nancy boy he would have put it all on the line for his country, the country thats supported him and made him rich and famous for paddling around a swimming pool. Footballers play with broken jaws, boxers fight with cut up faces and broken noses, but poor thorpe cant do 4 laps in a pool because hes got a cough.
There is no doubt he could have competed and maybe even won, and if he didnt he would have at least tried, but he plain quit.
If he was a real man he would have swam for his country until he sunk.if your so fit why don't you get out n have a crack? i've had bronchitis for the last 4.5 weeks since i flew back from the US, got into my cheast and i've been battling to stay awake past midday! if you can do better then 2 world records, 5 olympic golds, 9 commonwealth golds and countless other medals then stepup! or stfu!
LennyNero
08-Mar-06, 08:19pm
if your so fit why don't you get out n have a crack? i've had bronchitis for the last 4.5 weeks since i flew back from the US, got into my cheast and i've been battling to stay awake past midday! if you can do better then 2 world records, 5 olympic golds, 9 commonwealth golds and countless other medals then stepup! or stfu!
Your just an average slob. I thought thorpe was a godly super human specimen. I guess its all good when it suits him but not, when it doesnt.
Lambretta
08-Mar-06, 08:22pm
^ You're a deadset moron
I think you're being unfair to morons, you have to go a bit further down the scale before you come to Lenny.
borrisGLOWSTICK
08-Mar-06, 08:51pm
why do aussie's like swimming? its so bloody boring :?
of all the athletics this country's tv could get nuts about its swimming, why is running not such a tv drawcard? its pretty much the same thing just on land
kafuffled
special ed
08-Mar-06, 10:25pm
The guys a little wuss. His illness is not a mystery at all, hes got bronchitis. If he wasnt such a nancy boy he would have put it all on the line for his country, the country thats supported him and made him rich and famous for paddling around a swimming pool. Footballers play with broken jaws, boxers fight with cut up faces and broken noses, but poor thorpe cant do 4 laps in a pool because hes got a cough.
There is no doubt he could have competed and maybe even won, and if he didnt he would have at least tried, but he plain quit.
If he was a real man he would have swam for his country until he sunk.
possibly the most ridiculous post i've ever read
disgruntledgoat
08-Mar-06, 10:42pm
I dont believe it, but I heard a rumour the other day that he has got AIDS.
Dont flame me, I am just telling y'all what I heard..
haha...yep, heard the same rumour.
hinch probably started it though.
there was a post by someone in the "Sydney" forum about 2 nights ago, that pointed to a SMH article, and that posting said something along the lines of "Read this article, and doesn't this make Ian Thorpe a homosexual with a cocaine issue" or something like that.
i haven't been able to find that posting anymore.
besides, if somebody is ill, ... then they should be allowed to recover in peace. sensationalist news is only there to grab attention.
bReAkbEaT
09-Mar-06, 08:40am
Atleast he won't be "the only gay in the village"
/end little britain
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