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SwimSwam’s Caley Oquist just watched the meet officials review, and subsequently overturn, Cammile Adams‘ disqualification in the prelims of the women’s 200 fly.
After originally calling her for pushing off the back, after a further video review, the disqualification was overturned by decision of the meet referee.
That makes Adams the top seed heading into Wednesday evening’s semi-finals with a 2:08.29, and bumps Dakota Luther out of the 16th-place spot.
More information will be published as it becomes available.
happy for her. . this was my event back in the day. . but hey, simply roll the tape for all to see
Seeing that photo makes me think Dave’s gesticulating might earn him a place in The Contemporary Hotel at Disney World.
Why not let Dakota swim as well? They have a 10 lane pool.
I didn’t realize that USA swimming was using video review for DQ protests. When did they start using video review?
Would be nice if the rest of the world caught up with the times
Check out Dave Marsh’s TURNS video in his Next Wave Technique series. He teaches a turn for breaststroke and butterfly that has the swimmer leave the wall past vertical toward the back. Run it in slow motion and you will see it.
Remember the Piersol DQ that was overturned? And remember the Kitajima non-DQ that started the whole decay of the rules in breaststroke? Politics is always involved when it comes to the top swimmers and DQ judgments.
Procedures are in place for a reason. Part of these procedures is a coaches right (and responsibility, IMO) to dispute a call they believe to be questionable for their athlete. Officials are human and mistakes are made. Referees and overseeing committees do not overturn disqualifications due to pressure by an athlete’s coach – no matter who he is! When a call is disputed, the coach does present their reasoning for the dispute to the official committee and/or referee. Everything is revisited and looked over very carefully before a call is overturned, more often than not the disqualification stands. However, if there is ANY doubt or subjectivity to a call, the rules clearly state that the determination should error on the… Read more »
Check out Dave Marsh’s TURNS video in his Next Wave Technique series. He teaches a turn for breaststroke and butterfly that has the swimmers leave the wall past vertical toward the back. Run it in slow motion and you will see it.