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
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.)
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.)
