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From Brett Sutton (9/5/00)
I thought that I could answer a couple of your questions. I don’t want to use you, or other media outlets, as a personal forum. I prefer to keep a low profile, always have. If I'm asked a question, I try to answer it honestly. Our sport is filled with some very educated, but stupid, people that have not earned their positions -- coaching or administrative -- through achieving results. I therefore have never suffered from feeling inadequate if my answer is contrary to everybody else’s.
I know I have little education, and I struggle not to look foolish. I stick to the facts when I talk, and the truth sometimes hurts. You are correct, I carry remorse over the incident. The price most people think I paid is nothing compared to how I really paid every day since. The court case only slightly lessened the load. But people still relied on me, even afterward, so I moved on, and hopefully forward. That was all I could do. But am I sorry? Few know how sorry.
As to your first question, the police questioned every -- and I mean every -- junior female I had any contact with in triathlon, as did Triathlon Australia. They failed to make public that after the most thorough search not one other individual could be found. The reason is because there wasn't one. I prey on no one, now or in the past. I do pray that people understand and believe this.
As to my persona-non-grata status, that is an ITU decision. However, I can attend any World Cup the public is able to attend. The law says so. I have never been evicted from an event. If there is a seat available right next to Les, I may sit there. But I am choosy with whom I sit.
People in this sport must realize that Les is only still there because confrontation is his particular talent. Take that away and he is impotent. His political instincts in getting triathlon to the games were immense, and to be commended, however that is where his ideas stop. He is going to the Games as head of an organization. It could have been ping pong for all he cares. Whether getting to the Games was good or not is another debate, and one I would happily partake in, but one thing is for sure: Triathlon needs direction, and fast. This sport was heading in the right direction in 87, and 13-years later we have the Olympics, and a new band of supporters: the 187 or so federation bureaucrats dedicated to feathering their own nests.
As to your last question of whether the sport has the right to make me pay ad infinitum, the bigger issue concerns those who choose to work with me. The sport does not have the right, either morally or legally, to persecute athletes who have done nothing wrong. Consider Loretta Harrop, who has known me since she was 12-years-old. Because of her loyalty to me she is still not afforded the title of undisputed best in the world, as she has been since my problem -- yes MY problem – became known. Results prove her ability conclusively but she still endures reading about how any number of other athletes are presumed the better than she -- none of them in her class. Andrew John's struggle is just the sort of story that built this sport into what it is. Beyond that, he is the best human being alive. But who will know of it? Why should he carry the stain? Who could dislike Siri Lindley -- one of nature’s kindest -- or begrudge her success? But Less threw her winning flowers at her – along with some obscenities -- at the very moment for which she had dreamed for only God knows how long. Then there is Jo King, who no longer trains with me. This girl’s story of self-improvement is unbelievable. She was 3-minutes behind the last out of the water in Cancun, 1995, and they tried to stop her continuing the following year’s World Cup circuit. In 1998 she was out of the water with first pack and won the world championship. Totally incredible, but also largely ignored. Why? Because of me. That is unfair.
For me personally, I understand people's right to hold me in contempt. There were plenty of people happy to see me fall, not so much because of what I did, but because of their own inadequacies as coaches or administrators. That's okay too. But they didn’t consider how something I had done so many years ago would effect the professional careers of those who trusted me. The administrators were happy to sacrifice the only careers these athletes had, because athletes are just numbers to them. One goes. So what? Another twenty can take his place. That was – and is -- the saddest thing. I still survive against "the sanction" for one reason only: I do my job the best I can, and the athletes judge me the only way anyone can. I am happy to stand or fall by their critiques and judgments. If you want to know who and what I am, ask them.
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