Occasionally, I will miss a wall on my flip turn. It's never happened in a meet, but came up during my last meet when an official questioned me post race for barely touching a toe. During a freestyle event, is it within the rules to stop immediately and go back to touch a wall at the end of a length? Or, is the race over and might as well get out? For a short race, I'd just keep going. During a long event, I'd hate to do so, but would stop and go back so as not to risk it, if that's a possibility. Thanks.
I think you have the duration of the next length of the pool to go back and rectify the miss. So in a 100 freestyle, if you miss the wall at the 25, you have until you touch the wall at the next turn (the 50) to turn around and go back to touch the wall. After you touch the wall at the 50, it is a DQ. Of course my knowledge of this is based off USA-S rules, so maybe masters has a different rule for this?
I think you have the duration of the next length of the pool to go back and rectify the miss. So in a 100 freestyle, if you miss the wall at the 25, you have until you touch the wall at the next turn (the 50) to turn around and go back to touch the wall. After you touch the wall at the 50, it is a DQ. Of course my knowledge of this is based off USA-S rules, so maybe masters has a different rule for this?
