There's no provision that I'm aware of for giving a technical foul for a uniform/jewelry violation. Only thing we can tell them to do is take it off or have the player substituted for, and in my opinion is the correct way to handle a situation like that. From the sound of it, the track and field rule is silly.

From the story:

"In 1992, North Country’s Andy Oliver set a state record in the boys javelin but his throw of 199 feet, 3 inches was erased when he was disqualified for being out of uniform after a coach brought the infraction to the officials’ attention."

So this kid participated nude?!?!?! It's a good thing he wasn't on their javelin catching team!

and by 'javelin' you mean.......

Like I said...I didn't know what was in those rulebooks.

And it is a harsh punishment, I agree. But you can't really stop a race and ask the coach to substitute for the competitor. If you have an idea that I can submit to the rules advisory committee in my state, I'm all ears.

We try to do the preventive officiating that we feel these rules require. I've told competitors standing on a runway waiting for an attempt to take off the necklace. Heck, I've stopped a competitor on his pole vault approach because he still had a warm-up jersey on which was not allowed.

I've also missed the uniform and jewelry violations until it was too late to do the preventive officiating. I hate that. But, in the end, it is the duty of the coach and competitor to know the rule and abide by it.

Nope, under NFHS rules we can't tell a player to take anything off. We can only tell them that they can't participate if they wear jewelry. The decision to take the jewelry off or not lies solely with the person wearing it.