Melbourne, June 11 (ANI): To the embarrassment of the Swimming Australia officials who last week reprimanded Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk for posing with pistols and shotguns in the US, new images have emerged of the country's swim team members shooting guns at a rifle range. he photographs feature superstars including Libby Trickett and Eamon Sullivan firing weapons.
And it is believed that Swimming Australia organised the shooting session at a Canberra rifle range during an Australian Institute of Sport training camp in 2007, News.com.au reported.
Swim team leader Eamon Sullivan told Channel 9 the camp had been "a bit of fun".
"We were on team camp in Canberra, I don't remember which year it was, but we went to a gun range, had a bit fun, had a bonding session," he said.
"There was nothing wrong then so I don't see what is the difference is now," he added.
The images of the bonding session show golden girl Trickett firing an antique weapon.
The Australian Olympic Committee on Friday ruled the images of D'Arcy and Monk posing with the weapons had brought them into disrepute.
They ordered the swimmers leave London as soon as their events are completed at the upcoming Olympics and banned them from using social media at the Games.
But, Sullivan backed the under-siege pair and said they haven't really done anything wrong, noted that shooting is an Olympic sport and shooters don't get into trouble for posing in their Speedos.
He said the D'Arcy-Monk pose, brandishing high-powered weapons in a US gun shop, was just a case of "boys being boys." (ANI)
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