D'Arcy charged over nightclub assault

Australian Olympic swimming team qualifier Nick D'Arcy has been charged by police over the assault of former Commonwealth Games swimmer Simon Cowley.
Police have now charged D'Arcy with one count of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm, and one count of assault.
The charges relate to a fight with Cowley at a Sydney nightclub early on Sunday morning.
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has announced it will hold a joint investigation with Swimming Australia (SA) into the incident.
The AOC's vice-president Peter Montgomery will chair the inquiry, with both D'Arcy and Cowley to be interviewed.
Cowley was still undergoing treatment for a number of facial fractures today.
Swimming Australia's chief executive Glenn Tasker says D'Arcy's spot in the Australian swimming team is in doubt.
"Given the nature of the charges and the timeframe that it will take for the legal process to happen, I wouldn't want to pre-empt the AOC and their decision, but certainly his position at this point is in some doubt," he told the ABC's PM program.
D'Arcy, from Queensland's Sunshine Coast, has qualified to swim the 100 and 200 metres butterfly in the Beijing Olympics but the AOC has the power to drop him if he is found to have brought the team in to disrepute.
Former Olympic champion Kieran Perkins says if Nick D'Arcy is found guilty of assault he cannot take part in the Beijing Olympics.
"If somebody is found guilty of such a serious crime then you would have to think there's no place for that on our Australian team," he said.
National coach Alan Thomson says D'Arcy will have to live with the incident for the rest of his career.
"I don't think situations like this wash off," Mr Thomson said.
"I think this is some baggage that Nick will carry with him for quite a while and it's something that he'll have to face up to at some stage during his career."
Swimming great Dawn Fraser says the sport cannot afford to have alcohol-fuelled incidents ruin its reputation.
Fraser was one of the Australian Olympians who greeted the 2008 team after it was announced on Saturday evening.
She says all members of the team have a responsibility to behave.
"It shouldn't happen because these guys are an inspiration to all the younger generation of this country and we don't want them, like footballers, going out, boozing up and making a bad image for not only themselves, but for the sport," she said.