False Start rule Tightened??

[Kniteryder]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/4433815.stm

from the IAAF:

http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=512/newsId=29099.html

There was a lively discussion regarding the False Start rule and, after much debate, Council decided it would recommend to Congress that a “no false start” Rule change be accepted.

At present, each athlete is permitted to make one false start, but any athlete subsequently committing a false start is disqualified. Under the new proposal, any athlete making a false start will be immediately disqualified.

“The opinion of a majority of Council Members was that this rule change would prevent gamesmanship, by penalising those athletes who deliberately false start to unsettle their rivals,” said IAAF General Secretary Istvan Gyulai. “But this is just a recommendation, and Congress will take a decision in Helsinki.“

[exjersey1]

[QUOTE=Kniteryder]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/4433815.stm

from the IAAF:

http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=512/newsId=29099.html


At present, each athlete is permitted to make one false start, but any athlete subsequently committing a false start is disqualified. Under the new proposal, any athlete making a false start will be immediately disqualified.

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It's my understanding that the current rule in effect is that the entire field is charged when one runner false-starts and that anyone who jumps after that is disqualified, even if they didn't have the first one.

[gesser]

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It's my understanding that the current rule in effect is that the entire field is charged when one runner false-starts and that anyone who jumps after that is disqualified, even if they didn't have the first one.

Yes. "At present, each athlete is permitted to make one false start, but any athlete subsequently committing a false start is disqualified."

That was a misleading statement. I think it implied what you said, but it made it seem like every athlete could FS once. But read it again, and I think it's just bad wording with the "each athlete" part.

[Kniteryder]

More over, they are trying to rid meets with the same occurances that happened over at one of the European indoor meets where like half the field was wiped out because of FS's. You have gamesmanship by Mark Lewis-Francis to charge the field so that the whole field would have t osit in the blocks, then 3 other FS's resulted in dq'ing the Oly games 100m silver medalist, an american sprinter, and Lewis-Francis. It made the field weak, but it also disrupted what could have been an amazing race.

[jrun]

I favor the current rule. One to the field, then any other hanky-panky after that...you gone.

[cnick]

So much for new world records.

[exjersey1]

I favor the current rule. One to the field, then any other hanky-panky after that...you gone.


I really don't like that rule at all. I always thought it was extremely unfair.