Disqualified???

Former Member
Former Member
I recently posted a question about racing and received a lot of great answers so here is another question. I am about to participate in my first race (in a pool) and I am worried about being disqualified now. What are some of the common mistakes I need to be aware of? Turns maybe?
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  • You can't touch your goggles. Say for instance you dive in in the 500 and your goggles fall off and are hanging on your neck- tough luck you cant fix them. I believe in Masters messing with goggles is OK, as long as you don't otherwise break a stroke rule. So in freestyle you would be OK as long as you don't stand on the bottom or hang on a lane line while you are fixing them. But in fly or *** it would be very difficult to maintain stroke and fix goggles at the same time. A team mate of mine fixed his goggles on both the start and 1st turn of his 1500 free at Omaha, without a DQ; I saw a swimmer get DQ'd out of the 200 fly at Greensboro for breaking stroke to fix his.
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  • You can't touch your goggles. Say for instance you dive in in the 500 and your goggles fall off and are hanging on your neck- tough luck you cant fix them. I believe in Masters messing with goggles is OK, as long as you don't otherwise break a stroke rule. So in freestyle you would be OK as long as you don't stand on the bottom or hang on a lane line while you are fixing them. But in fly or *** it would be very difficult to maintain stroke and fix goggles at the same time. A team mate of mine fixed his goggles on both the start and 1st turn of his 1500 free at Omaha, without a DQ; I saw a swimmer get DQ'd out of the 200 fly at Greensboro for breaking stroke to fix his.
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