Talk:Neil Brooks

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[edit] Huh - does this sentence need cleaning up?

The article says ... Brooks demanded that they suspend him immediately for the Games, if at all, and lead a swimmer revolt, which saw the suspension scrapped. which doesn't seem to make much sense - any chance of a revision please?--VS ^talk 01:22, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Makes perfect sense to me. He said that if they wanted to suspend him, they should do it right away. They didn't want to do that because they wanted him to compete. He got the other swimmers to complain (maybe even threaten not to compete?) and the officials gave up and chose to cancel the suspension rather than have Brooks (and maybe the other swimmers) not compete. Here's what I don't understand...

"On the return flight, he consumed 46 cans of beer and was subsequently banned." This needs more explanation. Did he do something objectionable, attributed to his drinking 46 cans of beer? (most likely) Is there a rule limiting how much beer swimmers are allowed to drink? (less likely) Did he deprive the other Australians of beer, and therefore was judged to be in poor moral standing? (least likely, but funniest) Either way, further elaboration is needed. JDS2005 05:06, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

No,funniest would have been if he was banned for failing to reach the allotted target of 50.

[edit] GA pass

I fixed a few things, but overall it meets the criteria. Congrats. Wrad (talk) 01:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)