I was a swimmer
A good one as a teenager, though as I got older the rest of the field gradually caught up and overtook me, and by the time I was 19 I'd grown to hate the endless laps of training. Still, I had a lot of swimmer mates. One friend had been selected for the Barcelona olympics, and had been given a free 5 star hotel room for the night as a reward. He had a party in his room with about 20 of us. I had the idea of ordering a bloody mary through room service. when it arrived, others did too, and soon the whole party was binging on cocktails. As it turned out, the drinks weren't included in the free room, and he got stung for thousands. A couple of weeks later, he had a revenge of sorts. A nightclub had been turned over to swimmers for the evening. While I was sharing a joint with a couple of mates in a toilet cubible, some fucker started pissing under the door splashing our trousers. It was Kieren Perkins, who went on to win gold medals in two olympics, sticking up for his mate. These kind of antics were par for the course with swimmers. In general, they're not a sophisticated lot
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 24 Apr 2012, 20:18, 2 replies)

Another bloody name dropper

(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Wed 25 Apr 2012, 1:48, closed)

Wasn't there a row at Olympics a few years back...
... because after Week 1 when their events were over, the swimmers in the Olympic village just had one long bender and the track & field athletes and others whose competitions took place in Week 2 couldn't get any sleep?
(Capo, Wed 25 Apr 2012, 2:03, closed)