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Well, opinionated me hasn't weighed in on this yet because I expected 
someone else would point out the implications of AT being a 
professional.  WE are amateurs.  Amateurs get to be tired.  Amateurs get 
to use bad judgment when our adrenalin is up.  Amateurs get to take 
longer than it should to realize a problem and try to correct it. 
Professionals don’t.  They are PAID big bucks not to so cutting them 
slack in these areas is totally unjustified.

Your daughter's appendix ruptures.  You rush her to the Emergency Room 
where she is immediately operated on.  The surgeon removes her appendix 
(and also nicks a few other internal organs and fails to remove all the 
effluent).  She develops massive infections as a direct result of the 
surgeon's actions and dies two days later.  Do you a) say he made a big 
mistake and shouldn't be allowed to practice for 2 months and fine him 
$2000, b) apologize for the fact he was under a lot of pressure, is in a 
life-saving profession and doesn't make a habit of killing people, or c) 
rip him a new one with a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit?

"I think Amy Tryon has admitted to hers and has to live with the 
consequences the rest of her life…"  “I can only imagine how terrible 
this woman must feel...”  Well, let's see just how badly she feels, how 
honorable she is.  As a professional, the degree of her error was truly 
huge while her punishment less than the proverbial slap on the wrist. 
If she really is an honorable person, especially now that the Tribunal 
has spoken, she will come out with a statement wherein she admits to 
having made a terrible mistake, acknowledges that her punishment was not 
nearly strong enough, and announce that she is voluntarily withdrawing 
from competition for a period of 2 years, paying an additional $50,000 
"fine" to an organization such as the Morris Foundation, and offering 
the horse’s owner a fair remuneration for the horse’s value plus a 
stipend for his pain and suffering.  Now THAT would show some real 
remorse... sacrificing HER career and HER money for HER total lapse of 
professionalism.  Bets anyone?

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