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False start! Ouch.

Karen Duggan
I just read that the men's 200 MR was DQd at Worlds. That race could've given Phelps a record 8th gold medal... bummer. Phelps was very gracious about it. He said, "We came in here as a team, we exit as a team." Sigh. PS Did you see the size of his HANDS! I would like to swim just one race with hands his size, and feet the size of Thorpe's. (Yep, I have puny little paws!)
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  • I think a lot of people think it "interesting" that Crocker's false start ruined Phelps' chance for an 8th gold. My guess is that this wouldn't have been more than an "oh crap" if someone else had false started... Keep in mind that had he false started intentionally he would cost himself a gold medal too... I cannot and will not believe he did it intentionally. Question: What the heck is this thing about the teams getting a .04 "break" on their starts, but .05 gets them DQ'd? I have never heard this. It is completely absurd. Swimming is such an accurate sport to the hundredth of a second (WRs have been won and lost by as much, not to mention gold medals), how could teams be given that leeway? I don't get it. It's completely assinine. You either DQ a team for false starting, or you don't. The time they left early by shouldn't matter- it's still a DQ. (I can see the argument coming that all teams get the same "benefit", but even that doesn't make sense.) :confused:
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  • I think a lot of people think it "interesting" that Crocker's false start ruined Phelps' chance for an 8th gold. My guess is that this wouldn't have been more than an "oh crap" if someone else had false started... Keep in mind that had he false started intentionally he would cost himself a gold medal too... I cannot and will not believe he did it intentionally. Question: What the heck is this thing about the teams getting a .04 "break" on their starts, but .05 gets them DQ'd? I have never heard this. It is completely absurd. Swimming is such an accurate sport to the hundredth of a second (WRs have been won and lost by as much, not to mention gold medals), how could teams be given that leeway? I don't get it. It's completely assinine. You either DQ a team for false starting, or you don't. The time they left early by shouldn't matter- it's still a DQ. (I can see the argument coming that all teams get the same "benefit", but even that doesn't make sense.) :confused:
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