Over the week end, (for the first time in 30 years of competitive swimming) I was disqualified. It bothered me a little bit for about thirty minutes but after a few plates of food at the all-you-can-eat brunch across the street, I was fine. I did have a question though. Do the officials usually tell you that they are disqualifing you? The official came over to my lane and said something to me (about my *** pull-out on the 200 IM) after the heat but never actually said that I was disqualified. I was a little confused so after I got out of the pool I walked over and asked, "Did you disqualify my?" The answer was yes. Never having experienced this before, I was wondering do the officials usually actually say "I am disqualifying you" or "You are disqualified" or is the suggestive comment supposed to serve this purpose.
"Do the officials usually tell you that they are disqualifing you?"
yes they do
when they see a swimmer do something that disqualifies them,
they first raise their arm, then they notify the head judge, after the swim is done, they walk over to the swimmers lane and tells the swimmer their swim was disqualified and the reason for the disqualification.
It sucks to get DQed, especially when you feel you didn't do anything wrong.
It also sucks when a swimmer should be DQed and isn't. Like when Kosuke Kitajima in the 100 *** at the Olympics,
he took a dolphin kick in the prelims and the judges didn't call him on it. He won Gold, Hansen took Silver or when the east german and chinese women were taking steriods.
DQ's are worse when you're the reason a relay gets disqualified. You may feel like you let your team down.
to decrease the likelihood of getting DQed in a meet
Always use legal technique in practice
I confess that I often
break stroke in fly,
do one handed turns in fly and *** and
pull on the lane rope on backstroke
but I try not to in meets.
Ande
"Do the officials usually tell you that they are disqualifing you?"
yes they do
when they see a swimmer do something that disqualifies them,
they first raise their arm, then they notify the head judge, after the swim is done, they walk over to the swimmers lane and tells the swimmer their swim was disqualified and the reason for the disqualification.
It sucks to get DQed, especially when you feel you didn't do anything wrong.
It also sucks when a swimmer should be DQed and isn't. Like when Kosuke Kitajima in the 100 *** at the Olympics,
he took a dolphin kick in the prelims and the judges didn't call him on it. He won Gold, Hansen took Silver or when the east german and chinese women were taking steriods.
DQ's are worse when you're the reason a relay gets disqualified. You may feel like you let your team down.
to decrease the likelihood of getting DQed in a meet
Always use legal technique in practice
I confess that I often
break stroke in fly,
do one handed turns in fly and *** and
pull on the lane rope on backstroke
but I try not to in meets.
Ande
