Rather than bore you with official results, we want to update you on very serious developments on the Jim Hallett FINA investigation.
Your magnificent teammates initiated an appeal to FINA's rash action. When we threatened that Jim Hallett would sue FINA, it turned UGLY. In addition now to being barred from any future Master swim venues for life (including SPMA and USMS),FINA has stripped Jim of any official or unofficial swim results (NT's in Jim's case). In effect, Jim has disappeared completely from the record books and is now among the "disappeared" as in the dirty war in Peru and Argentina. It is as if he never existed.
The good news is while we could not appeal the permanent disbarrment, we were able to negotiate the one million Euro fine (FINA does not accept American dollars anymore) down to reimbursement by Jim to FINA of 10,000 euros and his reimbursement of all reasonable and necessary expenses to MMM competitors in Perth.
In addition, FINA has ordered Jim Hallett to pay the full cost of the MMM Banner, Marquee, FINA registration, and $220 for Tom losing the key to his room.
Tom Bourke pointed out the unfair adverse impact on the totally innocent spouse of Jim Hallett. FINA thanked Tom for the information and imposed the E10,000 euro fine and restitution amounts on Mary Ellen and ordered the remaining team members to notify her in case the aforementioned notificationis not provided to her directly by her formerly beloved spouse.
We decided to buy Jim a souvenir of Australia to assuage his undoubted massive guilt. We found a T-shirt being worn by many fashiunable swimmers with the Perth FINA Masters World Championship logo on it. I has the names of all male FINA world championship competitors on it, including all MCC registrants, incluidng one James Hallett. So the concept was to buy the shirt, cut out Jim's name and present him with both his name and the shirt with a small hole in it. But the concept failed for two reasons, one the shirt got sold out, and two, the shirt cost %50 and Jim is not worth it.
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Just so all of you know, Tom ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS loses his keys, wallet, money, etc. whenever/wherever he is. Maybe the team should buy disaster insurance on him for Sweden.
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