Australian swimmers punished for posing with firearms in CA

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http://www.smh.com.au/action/printArticle?id=3364951

Rifle range bonding session reveals Olympic double standard

Samantha Lane
Published: June 11, 2012 - 3:00AM

IN 2007, the Australian swimming team went to a Canberra shooting range as a team-bonding session.

Libby Trickett - or Lenton as she was when pictured here - was the star of the show, reeling off a few shots for the cameras.



Yet now, Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk find themselves being disciplined for taking a happy snap in an American gun shop while on a swimming tour and posting it on social media sites.

Their teammate, Eamon Sullivan, has backed D'Arcy and Monk in railing against the Australian Olympic Committee - which has ordered the pair home early from London because they posted the pictures online - and Swimming Australia, which is set to impose its own sanction today.

Raising the fact that Australian swimmers shot guns at a Canberra firing range in a so-called team bonding exercise in 2007, Sullivan said Monk and D'Arcy "haven't really done anything wrong"....

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-07/diamond-mark-head-shooting-team/4058532

Record-equalling Diamond, Mark head shooting squad

Posted June 07, 2012 14:45:26

Michael Diamond and Russell Mark will both equal the record for most Olympic Games by an Australian athlete after being named in the 17-strong shooting team for the London Olympics.

Diamond and Mark, whose sixth Games equals the records of James Tomkins, Colin Beashel and Andrew Hoy, will line-up alongside Beijing gold medalist Warren Potent, Athens champion Suzy Balogh and 2004 bronze medallist Adam Vella.

It is the most accomplished shooting team sent to an Olympic Games, with six of the 12 Olympic medals won by Australians in shooting history belonging to the London 2012 squad....