no 400m for Ian Thorpe

[stephanie_monot]

Ian Thorpe will not swim the 400 m freestyle at the Olympic Games as he did a false start during the selection.
What do you think about the reglementation of the start. (which is actually no false start).
What about giving Ian thorpe a new chance?
What's your opinion on that?

To my part, I think it's a damage for the 400m freestyle final..........

[stephanie_monot]

It doesn't affect you that much???
The world record holder will not swim the final???!!!

[mick]

Perhaps, Ian has lost the championship abilities or had trained improperly. There is no good reason for that mistake.

[Black&White]

Im From Australia, and there has been a lot of buzz about that false start. Although Craig Stevenson has stepped aside from his 400m place to let Ian Thorpe swim, I do believe that this situation should never have occoured. Many other swimmers before Ian have false started like him, and i have not been Disqualified from that event. Swimming Australia should have given him the benefit of the doubt to his appeal claim, thus not letting this become such a big spectical and an embrassment to them

[BigGref]

I saw a good piece about this incident on ESPN not too long ago. IMHO I think there should be a 2 false start rule that some governing bodies seem to use effectively.

The only people that the 2 false start rule would effect would be those who already jumped in and probably are shaken up a little already.

[Black&White]

Australia and the other countries governed by FINA before this happened lobbied to have FINA change their rules to the 1 false start only. This was to tighten up professionalism amoung the swimmers.

The problem isn't with the rule of 1 false start, the problem was the "flop" by Ian should have been judged as a Technical Fault (Each Swimmer gets 2 of these before being DQ) In past championship events, many other swimmers have gotten away with what Ian did, because it was classed as a Technical Fault

If the Judges had got it right when it happened, none of this would have ballooned out to such a mangitude.

Well i can't complain too much now. Ian is now swimming it now anyways. All i have to say it should have snowbblled into this.