OOB Throw In - Step on the line

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

There were a couple of runners DQ'd in one of the longer sprints that I watched during the Olympics for stepping on the lane line.

Thanks for reminding me. I did see this on televison. From the description below, from the NBC website, it sounds like the line is "out of bounds".

"Two disqualifications resulted in two very disappointed sprinters in the finals of the men's 200m. Churandy Martina of the Netherlands Antilles crossed the line second behind Jamaica's Usain Bolt, and American Wallace Spearmon was the third to finish, but both were disqualified for stepping on lane lines. Although Spearmon was knocked out almost immediately after the race's conclusion, he learned about it only after he had been celebrating for several minutes on the track. Martina's DQ came nearly two hours after the race, after officials analyzed video replays".