As noted in "Swim Rant" I was DQ'd in the 100 M BR yesterday,after swimming a really great race for me(unfairly I believe.)I was talking to Laura Val who was DQ'd in the 200 BK after a WR time(unfairly she thought).She thought we should have a thread to ventilate,commiserate,etc.Has it happened to you?How did you cope?
I felt like leaving the pool and not competing any more,for about 5 minutes,then I felt really sad for about an hour. Then I woke up at 2:30 in the morning and had a terrible time going back to sleep.Finally I decided to focus my emotions on my next swim.Fortunately for me that worked and I swam a 50 M BR that I was really happy with.If I had swum a lousy 50 I suspect I'd still be in a funk.
So what about you?
By the way,we don't need to limit this to DQs,any meet disappointments that you want to vent about are fair game as far as I'm concerned.
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Wow, I have a bunch of DQs compared to all of you. Chris, you've gotten two since you were nine? Holy cow.
I've been DQed in four races, IIRC, in my two years of swimming so far. And according to my coach, I should've been DQed in five, not four. :blush:
in breaststroke...
1.) I failed to touch the wall with both hands on a turn.
2.) I forgot myself and took too many SDKs off the dive.
3.) I did too many pull-downs off a turn (this was the one my coach noticed, but the officials didn't).
in backstroke...
1.) My feet were too far out of the water or something, in the gutter, while waiting for the buzzer (I don't recall the exact infraction).
in butterfly...
1.) I didn't know I had to touch the wall with both hands. Apparently, that's true for both symmetrical strokes.
edit: I just consulted the rulebook (something I should probably do more of, haha) and I see now that this is the relevant part about my backstroke DQ: "Standing in or on the gutter, placing the toes above the lip of the gutter, or bending the toes over the lip of the gutter, before or after the start, is prohibited."
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Wow, I have a bunch of DQs compared to all of you. Chris, you've gotten two since you were nine? Holy cow.
I've been DQed in four races, IIRC, in my two years of swimming so far. And according to my coach, I should've been DQed in five, not four. :blush:
in breaststroke...
1.) I failed to touch the wall with both hands on a turn.
2.) I forgot myself and took too many SDKs off the dive.
3.) I did too many pull-downs off a turn (this was the one my coach noticed, but the officials didn't).
in backstroke...
1.) My feet were too far out of the water or something, in the gutter, while waiting for the buzzer (I don't recall the exact infraction).
in butterfly...
1.) I didn't know I had to touch the wall with both hands. Apparently, that's true for both symmetrical strokes.
edit: I just consulted the rulebook (something I should probably do more of, haha) and I see now that this is the relevant part about my backstroke DQ: "Standing in or on the gutter, placing the toes above the lip of the gutter, or bending the toes over the lip of the gutter, before or after the start, is prohibited."
