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...course, has every right to promulgate and enforce the code as it sees fit. "We made the mistake," admits Caulkins. "We signed the code and broke the rules, so I guess they had to do something. It probably would have been worse if they didn't do anything." The catch is that the code must be signed if a swimmer wants to be on a national team--there is no choice. "It (the suspension of Caulkins and the others at Austin) could just as easily have been two years, and that would have been it," said American team member Nancy...
...annual convention in San Antonio which concluded early last month, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)--the body which exercises virtually absolute control over all serious non-intercollegiate amateur swimming in this country--suspended 18 top U.S swimmers for violations of the organization's swimming Code of Conduct. It is mandatory that any athlete, coach, manager or chaperone sign the code (see box) before being allowed to represent the United States in international competition...
Caulkins, who like the others was eligible to participate in this weekend's festivities as a member of her AAU club but not the U.S. National Team, had similar sentiments. "I think some people misunderstood the Code of Conduct," the silver-toothed 15-year-old sensation said Friday night from her home in Nashville, Tenn., "because it was after the last day of competition and everything...
...second incidence of code violations was less petty in nature, and more severe in its consequences for the athletes. It reportedly involved the use of drugs by five swimmers--Layton, Foreman, Beth Harrell, Steve Tallman, and Jan Ujevich--at a training camp in Colorado Springs, Colo. last August, while the American "B" Team was preparing for an upcoming dual meet with Canada. Four swimmers were suspended for two years with two years probation, while Ujevich, because she was a minor at the time, drew a one-year sentence with another year's probation. The International Subcommittee...
There is little disagreement in the swimming community that some kind of code, after years of reported incidents of misbehavior by U.S. athletes, is necessary. "We're responsible," explained International Subcommittee chairman Mike Troy, "not only to these kids and their parents but to all kids who want to try out for the U.S. team, and to all the AAU members and cardholders who foot the bill for the trips. When a kid makes the U.S. team, we have to guarantee to everyone involved that a certain standard of behavior will be maintained. We have a difficult situation here...