Sporting champions

[The Candy Man]

I'm often intrigued by the way various sporting codes deal with issues of players taking an "advantage"

Ian Thorpe slips on the block and falls into the water. Result? Banned from the 400m freestyle event in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Surely a harsh penalty for one little mistake. And yet, cricket has a player destined to become the highest wicket taker in the game, and yet he repeatedly transgresses the laws of the game with a highly dubious bowling action.

One tiny mistake penalised while years of cheating the system is rewarded.

 

[rizzo]

Originally posted by The Candy Man
I'm often intrigued by the way various sporting codes deal with issues of players taking an "advantage"

Ian Thorpe slips on the block and falls into the water. Result? Banned from the 400m freestyle event in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Surely a harsh penalty for one little mistake. And yet, cricket has a player destined to become the highest wicket taker in the game, and yet he repeatedly transgresses the laws of the game with a highly dubious bowling action.

One tiny mistake penalised while years of cheating the system is rewarded.

thorpey was treated really harshley

 

[bunsen burner]

Originally posted by The Candy Man
I'm often intrigued by the way various sporting codes deal with issues of players taking an "advantage"

Ian Thorpe slips on the block and falls into the water. Result? Banned from the 400m freestyle event in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Surely a harsh penalty for one little mistake. And yet, cricket has a player destined to become the highest wicket taker in the game, and yet he repeatedly transgresses the laws of the game with a highly dubious bowling action.

One tiny mistake penalised while years of cheating the system is rewarded.

Two complete different situations. Apples to oranges.

 

[harry_hawka]

Candy Man, there's a notable difference in what you are saying. One breached rules that have been set for years, and the other doesn't breach any rules at all (according to the International Cricket Council). As Bunsen said, it's apples to oranges.

However, I understand your point, that in the general scheme of things, the way in which rules are breached have different (more/ less severe) penalties according to which sport is played. It's easier to define a breach in the start at a swimming event, than it is to define what is counted as an illegal bowling action. Science vs speculation.