Pick me - I'm Aboriginal!

Patrick has had 4 long years to make the cut. He didn’t. Not good enough. Too bad too sad. Patrick out.

“NEXT!”

sorry, boomacat, but krudd has ron barassi, cathy freeman and ian thorpe with him now, teaching him about the important things in australian life. i believe they’re heading up three of the ten ‘i can see clearly now’ summit groups…

Patrick is indeed a role model for indigenous athletes.

But he would have been more of a role model if he just taken this one on the chin.

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No I don’t think that AIS people do pay HECS fees, which is a total farking joke that shows exactly where Australia’s twisted values lay – we value sport, but not intellectualism (maybe that will change now that Rudd’s around)

See it is comments like the VB one above, that actually justify Indigenous athletes getting special treatment. Perhaps then they can be seen by the masses to be something other than the tired old stereotype.

OK, I take it back, and unreservedly apologise if my comment offended.

Just put a can of VB on the finish line. That’ll do it.

i have to agree with spoonbill – in context, his words are still shiite and not worth a response from the athletics federation on the basis of his race-related claim, but the circumstances of his failure to post a qualifying time do merit consideration; and with the facilities available to athletes – and the federation – at the AIS, i can’t see why it should be so hard to line him up at the start, say ‘go!’ and time him at the end. he should have no trouble making the time if he’s as good as he, and his mates, say… and from his record, i’d rekkun he’s a shoo-in.

It’s coz I iz black, innit?

I am not an apologist, but put Patrick’s words in context. He has been training his butt off for these games and despite this he wasn’t selected. As with any modern athlete who has committed four years to getting to Beijing, he obviously would say anything to get in the team. It’s just a pity that sport has descended to this level.

To follow on from ‘thetruth’ do athlete trained at the AIS incur a HECS debt? They should!