Does anyone know the rule on underwater dolphin during the freestyle starts and turns? The 15m rule doesn't apply, does it?
Freestyle is freestlye, most people don't go that far because it is slower, except Phelps/Leveaux. Just wondering though, if I went 40 meters on the first 50 of a 400 free LCM, that would be allowed, right?
Is there documentation to verify this, in case of dispute?
I swim backstroke in "freestyle" races pretty regularly and I have never been DQ'd, although I suppose if I dived back at the finish I could be.
Unless you submerged well before the finish, this is not cause of disqualification. Every stroke allows the swimmer to be fully submerged just before the turn or finish. It's that 'just' before that can be difficult to distinguish. What I brief to officials is that if you have changed your attention from the swimmer to the wall, then you can not call the swimmer as being submerged as you are not focusing on the swimmer any more.
I swim backstroke in "freestyle" races pretty regularly and I have never been DQ'd, although I suppose if I dived back at the finish I could be.
Unless you submerged well before the finish, this is not cause of disqualification. Every stroke allows the swimmer to be fully submerged just before the turn or finish. It's that 'just' before that can be difficult to distinguish. What I brief to officials is that if you have changed your attention from the swimmer to the wall, then you can not call the swimmer as being submerged as you are not focusing on the swimmer any more.
