Olympics open water swim & referees (no spoiler)
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go 'gate 2006 posted 1 year ago.
You can thank google for this:
▪ Athletes can be disqualified for making intentional contact, obstruction or interference with another swimmer. Such unsportsmanlike conduct is judged solely by the Head Referee, who is located in an escort boat.
▪ Warnings are given with a whistle by the Head Referee. At the first rule infraction, the Head Referee shows a yellow flag to the athlete with a card bearing their number. For the second infringement, athletes are shown a red flag and a card bearing their number, and can be asked to immediately leave the water.
I also noticed this:
In the 10K races, coaches give drinks to the athletes from docks, piers or floating feeding pontoons.
They eat and drink during the swim? There are floating feeding "pontoons"? That's wild.
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
Thanks! I found that they could get disqual, but no details on the cards part.
Yeah, the feed zones are pretty crazy! It's neat to watch. They swim for near 2 hours, so feed zones make sense.
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
I want to see this. Do you know if it is going to be playing on the NBCOlympics.com site?
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
It seems that nbcolympic is showing most stuff... that is where I saw that women's race, so I imagine the men's race will be there tonight.
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TriSooner posted 1 year ago.
go 'gate 2006 wrote:
That is wild. I'm thinking about some marathon swims for next summer and some races Stateside do the same thing. I have a visual of swimming up to a pontoon and getting a gu and drink of water . . . while floating in fresh water.
In the 10K races, coaches give drinks to the athletes from docks, piers or floating feeding pontoons.
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
It was crazy to see... the athletes would swim up, and their coach would be holding basically a modified golf ball retriever with a feed bottle on the end and some kind of marking (like a little flag) so the athlete would know who's it was. Then the athlete would grab it, chug it while doing a couple backstrokes (usually) and then would toss it and get right back to swimming -- all the while their coach was just yelling "go go go". Getting to the edge for that in the swim pack was sometimes not so easy, either.
I believe on this course it was loops and they passed it once each loop, but I could be wrong. It was hard to get a feeling for the course as a whole.
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trigirltina2 posted 1 year ago.
TriSooner wrote:
go 'gate 2006 wrote:That is wild. I'm thinking about some marathon swims for next summer and some races Stateside do the same thing. I have a visual of swimming up to a pontoon and getting a gu and drink of water . . . while floating in fresh water.In the 10K races, coaches give drinks to the athletes from docks, piers or floating feeding pontoons.
Reading-Swimming to Antartica. Lynee Cox talks about eating breaks and those on the boat following her throw it inot the water, so she would swim up to it. I am assuming the concept is the same for long distance swimmers. A wild book if you have time.
Huh.. watching the women's 10k open water swim right now, and there are referees on boats alongside the athletes. The commentary mentioned that they will blow a whistle if there is unsportsman-like conduct. I wonder how that would change an IM swim start! Although it looks like there is still some contact. And does anyone know if they record who gets the warnings and if there are any consequences to it?
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