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!
Originally posted by SWinkleblech
This is disappointing. Can someone explain why you get DQ on your first false start.
Back in the "old days" it was similar to track. I think they used to actually allow three false starts, where the first two were charged to the field. I think the main reason for changing the rule is people jumped just to get in the water. In events like the 50 there were all kinds of false starts and it really slowed down meets.
But man this news is a real shocker. I don't see how the Aussies can do a thing about it. If he's DQed he's out. You can't just make an exception because he's Ian Thorpe. I've got to believe Thorpe himself realizes this.
Originally posted by SWinkleblech
This is disappointing. Can someone explain why you get DQ on your first false start.
Back in the "old days" it was similar to track. I think they used to actually allow three false starts, where the first two were charged to the field. I think the main reason for changing the rule is people jumped just to get in the water. In events like the 50 there were all kinds of false starts and it really slowed down meets.
But man this news is a real shocker. I don't see how the Aussies can do a thing about it. If he's DQed he's out. You can't just make an exception because he's Ian Thorpe. I've got to believe Thorpe himself realizes this.
