It's may be within Swimming Australia rules to cut Nick D'Arcy from the team for World Championships in Rome.
I feel that they will be negligent if they do not give the "dropped" swimmer phycological support, for at least the next year. It is part of their duty to Nick D'Arcy.
They appear not to have given any indications that the penalty imposed by the Australian Olympic Federation (Exclusion from the 2008 Olympic Team) would be sufficient to extinguish his criminal behaviour of GBH on an ex-swimmer. He was encouraged to qualify for the 2009 World Swimming Championships. He trained and qualified for the Australian team.
Yesterday, the bombshell was dropped that D'Arcy has been excluded from the team. Of course there will be a fallout from this on the swimmer's mental health. Swimming Australia owe a "Duty of Care" to help D'Arcy in his darkest hour.
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