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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I was so shocked at first. But having seen many reports about it, read everything there is to read, listened to many people I think the referee made the right decision. Its always tough to disqualify the best swimmer, but just with with Kristine Quance in 1996, the referee did the right thing. This sport is incredibly fair compared to subjective ones (synchro, diving, figure skating etc etc) and he appears to have violated a rule... I must congratulate the deck officials for doing what they thought was right and the meet jury for seriously considering the protest.
I was so shocked at first. But having seen many reports about it, read everything there is to read, listened to many people I think the referee made the right decision. Its always tough to disqualify the best swimmer, but just with with Kristine Quance in 1996, the referee did the right thing. This sport is incredibly fair compared to subjective ones (synchro, diving, figure skating etc etc) and he appears to have violated a rule... I must congratulate the deck officials for doing what they thought was right and the meet jury for seriously considering the protest.
