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 lefty
Thorpe will be swimming the 400 at the Olympics. There is no question about it. Somehow they will find away. Perhaps the 2nd place finisher will elect to pullout of the event at the Olympics. In 2000 Grace Kim pulled out of the Olympics (tae-kwon-do) so that her training partner who she knew was better - could participate. I think that the second place finisher has every right to swim, but I really really don't think that will happen.
If Australia follows the same selection rules as the U.S. -- which they seem to -- that couldn't happen. If the second place finisher dropped out, the third place finisher would move up (and then the fourth and so on). A disqualified swimmer wouldn't be in the "line of succession."
As far as the "no false start" rule itself is concerned -- I started swimming when one false start was allowed. What happened then (which I think was the reason the no false start rule was adopted) was that swimmers were false starting intentionally to psyche out the competition. Not only did this break the concentration of the swimmers who didn't false start, it seriously delayed meets.
Originally posted by lefty
Thorpe will be swimming the 400 at the Olympics. There is no question about it. Somehow they will find away. Perhaps the 2nd place finisher will elect to pullout of the event at the Olympics. In 2000 Grace Kim pulled out of the Olympics (tae-kwon-do) so that her training partner who she knew was better - could participate. I think that the second place finisher has every right to swim, but I really really don't think that will happen.
If Australia follows the same selection rules as the U.S. -- which they seem to -- that couldn't happen. If the second place finisher dropped out, the third place finisher would move up (and then the fourth and so on). A disqualified swimmer wouldn't be in the "line of succession."
As far as the "no false start" rule itself is concerned -- I started swimming when one false start was allowed. What happened then (which I think was the reason the no false start rule was adopted) was that swimmers were false starting intentionally to psyche out the competition. Not only did this break the concentration of the swimmers who didn't false start, it seriously delayed meets.
