From USA Today:
Rogan, 27, told the Austria Press Agency that four bouncers beat him up Saturday night as he attempted to re-enter a discotheque in Ostia, on the seaside near Rome, after being ordered to leave "for no apparent reason." The night club said that the swimmer was ordered to leave for security reasons that included dancing drunk with a broken bottle in his hands. The club said that Rogan also fell as he attempted to get back inside the club.
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From the Globe and Mail:
If he does have issues, then get the guy the help he needs.“When I stepped back inside again, four bouncers jumped me,” he said.
Fabio Balini, an executive with the Shilling club, said that the swimmer was with his teammates when he was asked to leave by the club's personnel as part of standard security procedures. Balini said Rogan could be a danger to himself or others because he was drunk.
Balini said he had interviewed witnesses and reviewed security tapes and that there was no evidence that the personnel had acted improperly.
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8 comments:
markus rogan swims for AUSTRIA, not australia.
It's official, I am an ass. I corrected it.
ooops, Thanks!
Better than me screwing up RSA and calling Roland Schoeman from Russia when I first got to Swimming World!
It was probably your first 15-minutes on the job too... Great coverage of the Pier to Pier swim
Surprising. Rogan went to Stanford, and seemed to be popular with his teammates. And he is the one who immortalized himself by saying, when it looked for a few minutes as if Piersol would be disqualified after the finals of the 200 back in Athens, that he didn't want the gold medal if that was how he was going to get it.
I love that this is "news." He's a 27 year old guy who got drunk after a big meet. I find this amusing, but hardly alarming.
you forgot the part about dancing with a broken bottle, being thrown out, and then beaten up when he tried to return into the bar.
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