Just when I thought it was safe to turn on the telly and not be bombarded with Olympic bullshit that does nothing but piss me off, our two "bad boys" (as the media likes to call them) of the swimming team, D'Arcy and Monk, have managed to get themselves right back in the shit again. Only this time they have really got themselves in the shit. This is, as I type, currently going viral across the main stream media here. Not just the online community, but top stories on the morning breakfast shows on telly. Both of them, but especially D'Arcy, will be having to do rather a lot of explaining when they finally get back to Australia from their European jaunt.
It does very much appear that there was a lot of opposition here to D'Arcy even being let allowed to go on holidays to Europe with his family. Being a bankrupt there are apparently strict guidelines for his travel, to the point where he has to surrender his passport to his bankruptcy trustee on return to Australia. This bankruptcy trustee here will not confirm or deny if he even gave permission for D'Arcy to go to Europe (I smell a rat there - is he mates with his trustee?). And it turns out that it was D'Arcy's dear old dad who convinced the piss weak Olympic officials to let D'Arcy go on a "family holiday in Croatia".
His father has since returned to Australia from this "family holiday" (I smell another rat). Monk has also met up with D'Arcy on his "family holiday". *A note here, he got to the other side of the world/London on taxpayers money, to attend the games.
One of the conditions of being let to go there instead of straight back to Australia, was to not post on social media for the duration of the Olympics. They've broken that ban.
They have posted pictures of themselves together on Facebook, holidaying over there, flying in the face of the ban and D'Arcy's bankruptcy, and literally adding insult to injury to Simon Cowley back here in Australia who hasn't received a cent of compensation off D'Arcy for his assault. The media has grabbed hold of this and I can almost hear the public outrage from my PC chair!
The pair were banned from using social media until the end of the Games, but that has been ignored with the posting of these photos.
It appears that despite promising to holiday with their families, the pair have met up on the Croatian island of Hvar.
The photos on the luxury boat appear to fly in the face of D'Arcy's financial situation.
D'Arcy declared himself bankrupt in 2011 after a court ordered him to pay former teammate Simon Cowley $180,000 in damages after D'Arcy king hit him at a nightclub in 2008.
Cowley's lawyer Sam Macedone said D'Arcy's new travel arrangements should never have been allowed.
"If he has been given permission to go on a holiday, I want to know why," Macedone said.
"I understand the trustee gave his permission to go to the Olympic Games to try to win a gold medal, but that is it.
"The fact that he's gone from London to Croatia, to me is totally against his travel conditions.
"Macedone said Cowley was "just shaking his head" over the 25-year-old's latest movements.
"Nothing shocks him any more in this matter."
D'Arcy's father Justin, who convinced the AOC to let his son stay in Europe, is believed to already be back in Australia. Whether other family members are still with Monk and D'Arcy is unclear.
The two swimmers were forced to surrender their Olympic accreditation and leave London after public uproar over photos of them brandishing guns in a US gun shop in the lead-up to the Games.
D'Arcy's bankruptcy trustee Robert Whitten would not confirm if he had given D'Arcy permission to travel to Croatia.
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It's clear to me the whole family holiday thing was a lie, along with the bankruptcy and the promise not to engage social media. I suspect also the bankruptcy trustee of D'Arcy's is a mate of the family and all part of the plot to avoid paying Cowley any money (but that's just speculation on my part I should point out). I mean seriously, does he think we're all as stupid as he is?
D'Arcy should have never been sent to the Olympics. What a grossly immoral choice. The AOC should have a long hard think about all this, before choosing some other asshole just because he can swim fast. They are there to represent Australia, not to try and make a mockery of our intelligence. I'd say that D'Arcy is entirely unrepresentative of the Australian community, both in character and intelligence.
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