Libby Lenton is not a morning person and neither is anybody else on the Australian National Swim Team.
In late October the International Olympic Committee granted a request to NBC to move the swim finals of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to mornings so as to accommodate NBC's desire to broadcast them live in prime time.
Australian's were not stoked! Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, Kieren Perkins and other "non-Americans", as the online addition of the Herald Tribune called them, sent a carefully worded letter to the IOC stating, "We suck in the morning".
An unidentified source deep within the IOC told this blogger, "We, the IOC, have 2.2 billion reasons to hold all Olympic finals in the morning and they all contain the name George Washington."
It's almost summer in Australia and Australian Nationals are in just a few weeks. [Go Ian Thorpe.] The IOC decision to hold finals in the A.M. has Libby Lenton so concerned that she suggested Oz Nationals should have their finals in the morning as well. My gosh, is she thinking that it will take Australian swimmers a year-and-and-half to get motivated or capable enough to swim a fast race in the morning?
Michael Phelps weighed in on the IOC decision and his comments were stated like a true champion: "If you make the Olympic team and you can't come and be ready to swim in the morning, if you can't get excited to do that, give your spot to someone else." Read it here.
Memo to Libby, Grant, Kieren and Ian: Michael Phelps can hear you and he feeding on your fears.
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