goughy
30th July 2005, 08:46 PM
Anyone hear the story about this. She came second in the world champs to a polish swimmer by .04 of a second. Both were under WR time. Now here is the kicker!
In butterfly and breastroke events the swimmer much touch the wall with both hands at the same time to finish the race officially. They have rules officials on hand etc to assure of this, and they feel there has been a breach then they can call on video evidence. But once the head official signs off o the race it is all over. While I believe and appeal is still available the video evidence is not allowed and since it pretty much comes down to what the official saw............. you know what I mean.
I had heard that the polish swimmer touched the wall with only one hand to set off the timer. If this was the case then if an official saw this they could be dq'ed. I have since read that not only did she touch the wall with only one hand, but her other arm was down beside her body, possibly helping propel herself in a freestyle motion. How an official could miss this; it would be pretty obvious. But being human I fully understand that things can be missed. But because they missed this, the result will stand regardless of evidence (which I'd like to see) and a swimmer who used an illegal motion to gain an advantage will win the race. I'm not calling her a cheat. But if she did do this then the aussie is the 'real' winner of the race, not that that means much.
What a shame as I love seeing aussies win.
I'm hoping sports sunday show the footage of this as I'd love to see it for myself.
Anyway, I think this may be the first sporting topic (non-golf) that I've brought up. Next thing you know I'll be talking fooz-ball.
In butterfly and breastroke events the swimmer much touch the wall with both hands at the same time to finish the race officially. They have rules officials on hand etc to assure of this, and they feel there has been a breach then they can call on video evidence. But once the head official signs off o the race it is all over. While I believe and appeal is still available the video evidence is not allowed and since it pretty much comes down to what the official saw............. you know what I mean.
I had heard that the polish swimmer touched the wall with only one hand to set off the timer. If this was the case then if an official saw this they could be dq'ed. I have since read that not only did she touch the wall with only one hand, but her other arm was down beside her body, possibly helping propel herself in a freestyle motion. How an official could miss this; it would be pretty obvious. But being human I fully understand that things can be missed. But because they missed this, the result will stand regardless of evidence (which I'd like to see) and a swimmer who used an illegal motion to gain an advantage will win the race. I'm not calling her a cheat. But if she did do this then the aussie is the 'real' winner of the race, not that that means much.
What a shame as I love seeing aussies win.
I'm hoping sports sunday show the footage of this as I'd love to see it for myself.
Anyway, I think this may be the first sporting topic (non-golf) that I've brought up. Next thing you know I'll be talking fooz-ball.