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27-year-old Thomas Fraser-Holmes gutted out a gold medal-winning performance in tonight’s 400m IM in Brisbane.
While competing on the final night of competition at the 2019 Aussie World Trials, the Griffith University swimmer produced a winning mark of 4:14.68, his 2nd fastest of the season.
That time tonight dips under the Aussie-mandated World Championships qualifying standard of 4:15.69, with TFH representing the only swimmer of the final to qualify.
However, the time and placement this evening is an even bigger symbolic win for the Olympic finalist, as it seals up his comeback to the Dolphins’ fold.
Last year Fraser-Holmes had completed his 12-month ban for having missed 3 random drug tests over a 12-month period. Officially cut-off from the Dolphins national team both financially and training-wise, Fraser-Holmes began training again alone in December 2017 after having taken 6 months off.
He redeemed himself with a silver medal in the SCM version of this 400m IM at the 2018 Short Course World Championships in Hangzhou.
Earlier this year he cranked out a mark of 4:14.32, his fastest outing since 2016, and he made it happen tonight in 4:14.68 to punch his ticket to Gwangju.
Was he the Australian swimmer that missed a scheduled drug test because he was having dinner at his mom’s house? No go plates or Tupperware. I’m done. Lol
Exactly. After missing 2 other tests mind you. And not only is he allowed back, he is being glorified for his successful ‘comeback’.
He wasn’t injured or retired. He was suspended.
Why are the comments closed on the Chalmers 50 free win article?
I noticed that too. The men”s 50 free times were slow and not one QT.
Cate’s stroke effeciency on full display there. On 50/200 times, you wouldnt have her beating Emma in the 100 this week
TFH did not win the 400m IM Australian national title in April, nor did he compete at Nationals. Larkin won the event, with newcomer Brendon Smith finishing a close 2nd. I believe he swam the 4:14 time at the Stockholm Swim Cup.
Corrected
BTW… about that 50 free down under…
I still get downvotes when I say the 100 and the 50 are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT events…
Let’s have a competition to see who gets the most down votes … by saying the most crass things that will offend people around here .. give them a workout lol
Uhhh so bitter I almost got triggered…
This is nonsense.
We need to stop with this glorification of cheaters.
Swimming Australia should have told him to take a hike, he isn’t close to being a medal contender, leavethe cheat out.
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It is absolutely ridiculous.
If TFH was chinese or eastern European this site would want to string him up.
He is a cheat, we shouldn’t allow people like this to compete at the highest level in our sport.
He’s the best Aussie, he did the QT and won, he never tested positive.
No, he just deliberately missed three tests to avoid failing.
It is an absolute joke, how can we pretend to want a clean sport when we allow such brazen disregard for the rules to be rewarded with spots on our national team?
Who cares about the QT, aside from the womens 1500 it was probably the weakest QT of the meet (this is a whole other discussion). He is a cheating non contender, who cares.
Blah blah blah cry to your mommy
That’s quite a strong claim.
He missed three tests. Whether he would have tested positive if he took them is far from certain.
It isn’t hard to update your whereabouts. No honest reason to miss 3 tests over such a short period.
It also doesn’t even matter, he is a cheat regardless of whether he would have failed the test he didn’t allow to happen.
You should be sued for defamation .. I hope Thomas Fraser-Holmes lawyers gets your details for defamation suit ..
Your comment is ridiculous.
Did he tho?? I’m seeing a lot of comments condemning TFH and I could bet none of you haters ever got tested, made a national team or even something close to relevant in the sport… or at least dedicated a life to it… stop spreading nonsense guys…
I actually have been drug tested, multiple times. I never missed one.
To be fair, I wasn’t tested anywhere near is rigorously as one would hope he would be, but then I wasn’t even near as good.
Though perhaps if I was a drug cheat I might have been, who knows.
Should we ban Ryan Lochte forever for getting IV drips?
Completely separate discussion, I’m not familiar enough with Lochte’s situation to comment.
If Lochte brazenly disregarded the rules as TFH did then yes.
Lochte also would swim a lot fater than TFH, which was my second reason to hold him out.
So if TFH admitted he’d previously doped so much it made Lance Armstrong look amateur, but went 3.59, you’d be alright with him on the team?
Strong moral stance.
No. But throwing away an Olympic gold medal is a much tougher decision.
I’d be 100% supportive of it though.
Leaving out someone who barely qualifies against the second weakest QT of the week is a much easier decision.
That picture was literally the biggest facepalm in at least the last 20 years of swimming
First of all, TFH never tested positive.
He’s been swimming for 10 years at international level and never tested positive.
And he missed those tests in a year that he had some mediocore results.
And when you look at his reason for missing those tests, you feel that he was honest about that. If he is a cheater, he wouldn’t give that kind of reason.
‘Dinner with mom……………’😉
Then, he was cut from the Aussie swimming both financially and training wise. And he trained alone and by own. If you look at the other famous dopers, they were sponsored by the state and trained with best coaches during the suspended periods.
So i’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
I’m sorry, but we should give NO benefit of the doubt to cheaters.
Remember Sun Yang and his smashed probe… we don’t know whether that would have tested positive or not either, and yet esp. Australians went ballistic over that incident.
There are rules, simple rules. I could follow them, countless others could, too. If you don’t abide by them, you should be banned for life. Whether your name is Lochte or Fraser-Holmes or Yefimova. Whether you got a vitamin drip that was more than the allowed amount, missed 3 tests, or were caught with a banned substance in your system. I honestly don’t care. You’re an elite athlete, it’s your job to stay clean, follow the rules, and make yourself available for tests at all times. If that’s too much to ask,… Read more »