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!
I have a question, as someone who has not seen the incident and am not a referee. How much judgement does the referee have? If someone steps up, immediately stumbles into the water (before "take your mark" could be said), would this person still be DQ'ed? If the starter says "stand up", you hold it for some time but do eventually fall off balance, is that also a DQ?
(My solution is to do a slow track start. ;) )
I have a question, as someone who has not seen the incident and am not a referee. How much judgement does the referee have? If someone steps up, immediately stumbles into the water (before "take your mark" could be said), would this person still be DQ'ed? If the starter says "stand up", you hold it for some time but do eventually fall off balance, is that also a DQ?
(My solution is to do a slow track start. ;) )
