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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Back when I swam High School we used to watch and see if someone false started, once they did, we would try and draw them off by using our one false start and get them DQ'd. It actually used to be used as a strategy to eliminate competition. Fair? No! Did it work? Yep! Did make for rather long meets sometimes!;)
Back when I swam High School we used to watch and see if someone false started, once they did, we would try and draw them off by using our one false start and get them DQ'd. It actually used to be used as a strategy to eliminate competition. Fair? No! Did it work? Yep! Did make for rather long meets sometimes!;)
