U.S. Olympic synchronized swimmer Tammy Crow is famous. But not for the obvious reason of her Olympian title.

Twenty-seven-year-old Crow was the driver of a car in an accident on Feb. 16, 2003. In the passenger’s seat was her serious boyfriend Cody Tatro, and in the backseat was one of Tatro’s students, 12-year-old Brett Slinger.

Crow suffered serious injuries, and Tatro and Slinger died after Crow lost control of the vehicle on a snowy mountain road.

Columnists and average Americans alike are criticizing Crow and the United States Olympic Committee. They don’t believe Crow should have been allowed to compete with her team.

It isn’t enough for these people that Crow lost someone she loved or that she will be serving a 90 day jail sentence for her accident when she returns home from Athens.

She’s going to jail even though the police estimated her speed was below the posted limit at the time of the accident and her blood alcohol level was below the legal limit.

But she was drinking (which is legal since she is 27) the night before with friends, and this little fact, which probably had little to do with the accident, has Crow under scrutiny.

The Slinger family is claiming the sentence is not enough punishment for Crow. They said Crow took away their son’s Olympic dream, so her’s should be taken away too.

Whatever happened to two wrongs don’t make a right?

The U.S. Olympic Committee made the right decision by allowing Crow to compete in Athens. The judge for her case did the right thing by allowing her to serve her sentence after she returns from Athens.

But the question that remains is if she should even have to serve her jail sentence.

We use the word accident for a car crash because, most of the time, the driver didn’t mean for it to happen, and there wasn’t much he or she could do to prevent it.

What it comes down to is Olympians aren’t Gods, even if our culture does worship them. They’re only human, and humans make mistakes.

The above editorials are the consensus opinion of the Summer Kent Stater editorial board, whose members are listed above.