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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"Falling" off the blocks often happened before the no false start rule was adopted -- not as much since. That's the way swimmers would try to break the other competitors' concentration. So I think the rule makers actually had that in mind -- the rule doesn't specify that the false start be close to the actual start.
"Falling" off the blocks often happened before the no false start rule was adopted -- not as much since. That's the way swimmers would try to break the other competitors' concentration. So I think the rule makers actually had that in mind -- the rule doesn't specify that the false start be close to the actual start.
