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Old 02-01-2011 | 04:32 PM
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Default RE: The 800-pound gorilla sitting in the corner

ORIGINAL: Doug Cronkhite
I don't think it's a stretch to say that unless Jason is found guilty of a crime, he is the team member until such time as HE says otherwise. ANYTHING LESS goes against the basic tenets of this country's legal system, that or a person being innocent until proven guilty. Being charged with something is not the same as being convicted, and is no reason to go abandoning him, regardless of what has been reported in the press.
A devil's advocate extension of your argument is that the organising body is well within it's rights to allow anyone convicted of any crime to compete providing they can make the event, and at the end of the day it IS well within it's rights to do that.

Guilty or inncent according to law has no bearing on this argument except that it MAY be used by an organising body as a yardstick to determine if a person is deemed suitable to represent their country. Being guilty, in the eyes of the law, of anything doesn't automatically exclude you and being innocent of everything doesn't give you immunity to being rejected on the ground of bringing the team into disrepute.

I agree 100% innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but that isn't the issue.