www.swimming.org.au/.../results_details.cfm
I hope this link works..........but if not Ian Thorpe was DQed in prelims of the 400 Free at the Australian Olympic Trials!!!!!!!
Australia's selection policy is as strict as the US one.........Thorpe will not contest the 400 Free at the Olympics!
I wish all meet management softwares were required to show the reason for the DQ...........it could have been a false start or a no show due to illness or injury or bizare circumstance.........i hate not knowing!
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This is disappointing. Can someone explain why you get DQ on your first false start. I always thought this was unfair. In track doesn't the whole field get charged with the first false start and then if someone false started after that you get DQ? Why can't this be used in swimming? It would be a shame for on of the world's greatest swimmers not to be able to swim in one of his best events. We should be allowed some room for mistakes.
This is disappointing. Can someone explain why you get DQ on your first false start. I always thought this was unfair. In track doesn't the whole field get charged with the first false start and then if someone false started after that you get DQ? Why can't this be used in swimming? It would be a shame for on of the world's greatest swimmers not to be able to swim in one of his best events. We should be allowed some room for mistakes.
