They (the media) are very good at ruining people or attempting to. I think it is not a good idea for an Olympian but I dont believe in crucifying people for mistakes. God knows I dont want people to judge me soley on errors Ive made. I think they should cut him some slack on his road to adulthood and hopefully it is a lesson learned.
One of the problems with the Zero Tolerance craze is that it fails to distinguish between when people make some minor, dumb mistake vs. when they do something that is bad in a major way. It seems to be geared toward making it impossible for a person to recover from a minor mistake.