If you accidentally touched the lane line during a race, does that disqualify you? ies"]
If not, how can you tell "accidentally" touching from touching more, e.g. pushing the lane line? It helps to push the lane line, doesn't it?
Once during my lap my hand and the hand of another swimmer in opposite direction accidentally pushed each other, giving both of us a solid propulsion :D
I'm pretty sure its up to the ref's (judge's?) best judgment. You can USUALLY tell when someone is just accidentally bumping the lane lines, as opposed to using them to get ahead.
I saw it happen in Atlanta. The guy hit the lane line, the offical's arm came up. I don't know for sure if the swimmer was DQ'd or if it was for that reason, but it sure looked like it.
Touching the lane line, even pushing off sideways, should not DQ.
102.15.9 Grasping the lane line or side wall to assist forward motion is not permitted.
kind of like....intentional vs accidental
Touching, hitting or pushing off the lane lines (or the side wall if present) is not cause for a DQ _unless_:
1) you use the lane line for forward motion or
2) the act of hitting the lane line causes you to no longer execute the stroke correctly (i.e non-simultaneous arm recovery in fly, etc.)
to further clarify, there is no distinction between accidental and purposeful touching/use of lane line and/or side wall. even if you get discombobulated and end up yanking or pushing off accidentally, it's still a DQ
Not directly related to the original post, but I have a response that relates to DQs. I completely blew a back to *** turn on Saturday and almost got DQd. In a 25y pool I know the flags to wall distance like the back of my hand; but not so for meters. In the race (200 LCM IM) I threw my hand back and initiated the turn expecting the wall to be there (as opposed to waiting for the hand to touch before initiating the turn). But my hand never touched the wall. So I sort of spun around while still on my back and touched with just one foot and weakly rotated and pushed off for ***. My dad said the ref was standing right at my lane and started to raise his hand - he kept it by his ear for a moment and then put his hand back down. When I finished the ref told me he almost DQd me because my hand never touched the wall. Then it occurred to him that when my foot touched the wall I was still on my back; and when I pushed off I was on my ***; so the turn was in fact legal (but quite ugly indeed). So just because my hand never touched the wall didn't mean it was cause for a DQ. DQ or not, the rest of the race was shot. 50m *** is long enough as it is - even longer when you barely get a push to do a pullout!
Not directly related to the original post, but I have a response that relates to DQs. I completely blew a back to *** turn on Saturday and almost got DQd. In a 25y pool I know the flags to wall distance like the back of my hand; but not so for meters. In the race (200 LCM IM) I threw my hand back and initiated the turn expecting the wall to be there (as opposed to waiting for the hand to touch before initiating the turn). But my hand never touched the wall. So I sort of spun around while still on my back and touched with just one foot and weakly rotated and pushed off for ***. My dad said the ref was standing right at my lane and started to raise his hand - he kept it by his ear for a moment and then put his hand back down. When I finished the ref told me he almost DQd me because my hand never touched the wall. Then it occurred to him that when my foot touched the wall I was still on my back; and when I pushed off I was on my ***; so the turn was in fact legal (but quite ugly indeed). So just because my hand never touched the wall didn't mean it was cause for a DQ. DQ or not, the rest of the race was shot. 50m *** is long enough as it is - even longer when you barely get a push to do a pullout!
But you rocked the 100 fly!! :applaud::applaud:
even if you get discombobulated and end up yanking or pushing off accidentally, it's still a DQ
I can imagine smacking the lane line accidently but "grasping...to assist forward motion" accidentally seems like a stretch! :)
