No apology offered by swimmer Matt Targett to teammate Alicia Coutts after bullying incident last January Swimmer Matt Targett has been reprimanded over a bullying incident involving Australian teammate Alicia Coutts. Alicia Coutts pictured after returning home from the London 2012 Olympics. ALL Alicia Coutts wanted was an apology. It was the least she deserved. The London Olympic golden girl and true star of the Australian swim team became the undeserving victim of the poison in the sport three months ago in a bullying incident at the hands of relay bad boy Matt Targett. Yet officials refused to take a strong stand yesterday, simply handing Targett an undisclosed "reprimand" for inappropriate behaviour. Swimming's Integrity Panel fined and handed "deferred sentences" to the six members of the men's 4x100m freestyle relay team for a Stilnox bonding session in Manchester last year. The only finding additional to what the relay members had admitted two months ago was an unnamed team member reprimanded for inappropriate behaviour towards another team member at the Perth tri-series in January. News Limited can reveal it was sprinter Targett who, despite being a ringleader and supplier of Stilnox last year, escaped further punishment for the incident involving Coutts at a time when the team was supposedly rebuilding culture and morale. Coutts will not publicly discuss the matter, but her management did confirm that she was involved in an incident in Perth. "I can't clarify who the other athlete was," Coutts' management said. Alicia would have hoped for clarification on the terms of the reprimand, but we have had no clarification or a letter of apology. We will accept the integrity panel's decision and move on and focus on the Adelaide trials and making the Australian team. Relay swimmers Cameron McEvoy, Eamon Sullivan, James Roberts, James Magnussen, Matt Targett and Tommaso D'Orsogna. Targett did not return phone calls yesterday. James Magnussen said no allegations or complaints outside of Stilnox use and childish behaviour were put to him by the Integrity Panel and he accepted their findings. "I accept Swimming Australia's findings in relation to me and I am determined to grow personally through this experience," Magnussen said in a statement. The Integrity Panel hearing was supposed to be swimming's line in the sand, a chance to put the past to bed and build towards the future. "We believe these athletes showed poor judgment in their actions and behaviour, and such behaviour is unacceptable for members of the Australian Swim Team," Swimming Australia president Barclay Nettlefold said in a statement. We have taken many steps towards developing a more positive culture within the team and the organisation already this year, and we're confident we are heading in the right direction. In reality though, failing to provide full transparency is only going to increase resentment in the pool that the relay members have not faced appropriate sanctions. As one source indicated yesterday: "This could go anywhere." The Australian Olympic Committee remain hot on the trail of the relay men, specifically the emergence of video which may prove that Stilnox was consumed on the chartered flight back to Australia from the London Games and the behaviour towards female members during their bonding session. Hired AOC investigator Bret Walker SC has not yet completed his report but the prevailing thought is that the relay men won't escape punishment as easily with Olympic bosses.