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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Originally posted by SWinkleblech
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.
It used to be this way. It was when I attended my first meet (as a spectator) many years ago. But I always thought it was a bit unfair.
Imagine that we have 2 swimmers, A and B, and that A false starts on the first try, and B false starts on the second. Under the old rules, B would be disqualified while A would not, even though each had false started once. Of course, you can say that B should have been extra careful the second time, since there had already been a false start. But then the question becomes: Why can't every swimmer be extra careful the first time?
How would you feel if they had allowed 2 false starts in this heat, and Thorpe had lost his balance the second time (but not the first)?
Bob
Originally posted by SWinkleblech
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.
It used to be this way. It was when I attended my first meet (as a spectator) many years ago. But I always thought it was a bit unfair.
Imagine that we have 2 swimmers, A and B, and that A false starts on the first try, and B false starts on the second. Under the old rules, B would be disqualified while A would not, even though each had false started once. Of course, you can say that B should have been extra careful the second time, since there had already been a false start. But then the question becomes: Why can't every swimmer be extra careful the first time?
How would you feel if they had allowed 2 false starts in this heat, and Thorpe had lost his balance the second time (but not the first)?
Bob
