An interesting point of view!!
Hi Sam
Sometime people in high places who set the rules to suit TV coverage and
not athletes - are too pompous and have limited hearing of public sentiment
from athletes and then the only way to show them how bad something is, to
get public attention attracted to an unfair situation. John Drummond I
believe did all Sprinters a favour in a much more powerful way than anyone
could ever have done by any reasonable representation petition or otherwise.
It is like marching in protest for something. I'll bet everyone would
believe in some cases something would be worth marching for. But ofcourse
most of us hate people marching when it effects us individually and we don't
care about the issue.
The IAAF ought to consider how decent it is to modify the traditions of the
sport to suit TV coverage at the expense of fairness for athletes. If there
were many more people in the IAAF who would listen and realize that the
system as it stands is damaging to the sport. They would then realize that
their own rules have brough the sport into disrepute and not John Drummond.
The moment the world sees that fact that John actually got out slower than
the guy next to him they realize that the system as it stand is pathetically
flawed.
Sometime doing a sit in is the only way. He did all sprinters a favour. If
this now leads to a rule change - we can call it the John Drummond amendment
because that is how the world works sadly. That's politics and this is
political. TV vs Athletes.
My 3c
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Hi Sam
Sometime people in high places who set the rules to suit TV coverage and
not athletes - are too pompous and have limited hearing of public sentiment
from athletes and then the only way to show them how bad something is, to
get public attention attracted to an unfair situation. John Drummond I
believe did all Sprinters a favour in a much more powerful way than anyone
could ever have done by any reasonable representation petition or otherwise.
It is like marching in protest for something. I'll bet everyone would
believe in some cases something would be worth marching for. But ofcourse
most of us hate people marching when it effects us individually and we don't
care about the issue.
The IAAF ought to consider how decent it is to modify the traditions of the
sport to suit TV coverage at the expense of fairness for athletes. If there
were many more people in the IAAF who would listen and realize that the
system as it stands is damaging to the sport. They would then realize that
their own rules have brough the sport into disrepute and not John Drummond.
The moment the world sees that fact that John actually got out slower than
the guy next to him they realize that the system as it stand is pathetically
flawed.
Sometime doing a sit in is the only way. He did all sprinters a favour. If
this now leads to a rule change - we can call it the John Drummond amendment
because that is how the world works sadly. That's politics and this is
political. TV vs Athletes.
My 3c
regards
Steve Bennett
www.oztrack.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Leitch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2003 10:58 PM
To: jim leppik; Shane Roelofs; Darren Alomes - Macquarie Accounting
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Oztrack] DQ Farce in Paris Men's 100
Greetings,
I don't care what the circumstances were. I'm a strong
believer in respecting an offical's decision
regardless of the situation.
It has become a common scenario on the sporting field,
where athletes dispute an offical's decision. This
shouldn't be the case, regardless of the sport.
I was interested to hear that an athlete should be
allowed to run the race, with the protest to be heard
later. This rule makes sense. In a laned event, such
as the 100m, it shouldn't matter whether an athlete is competing in the race
or not.
If this rule exists, it still doesn't allow Drummond
to behave the way he did. Respect must be given to the
officals and if he wishes to argue the point with the
IAAF, then delaying the 100m quarter final in the way
that he did, isn't the best way to do it.
Thats my 2 cents worth! :)
Cheers,
Sam.
--- jim leppik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Interesting that the Powell took off before Drummond
> but had a much slower reaction time!!!!
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> Shane Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> First of all I'd like to say a big CONGRATULATIONS
> to Justin Anelzark for
> his 5th in the Shot!!! Job well done!!!
>
> And now to the controversy with Jon Drummond. How
> can any reasonable person
> criticise his actions?!?! This guy has put in a
> tremendous amount of work
> to be in the shape he's in, to prepare for these championships and he
> knew that as soon as he left the track it would all be
> academic. So he did his
> best to get the officials to see reason. I DOUBT
> anyone of you would have
> done differently and if you would have, then let me
> tell you that you
> wouldn't be standing in the quarter final of the
> Mens 100M at the World
> Championships because your competitive spirit would
> not be strong enough to
> get you there.
>
> An athlete knows the rules, that's true. But an
> athlete also expects the
> equipment to work. We've seen the video, his foot
> twitches, but in no way
> can that twitch be attributed to his false starting.
> The equipment was very
> sensitive. These guys are applying HUGE amounts of
> pressure to those
> blocks, for it to measure that twitch as a reading
> is beyond my
> understanding.
>
> If there was an official of a higher character
> available in a position of
> decision the event would have been run with all
> participants and then the
> protest would have been decided overnight.
>
> And as for Michael Johnson's comments (along the
> lines of "What do you do
> when you have an idiot on the track?") I just can't
> believe that he could
> say something like that after his experience in the
> sport. If it was him in
> the same situation there is NO way he would have
> walked off. If he did a
> fair false start he would have walked off and took
> it like the champion he
> was, but if he was a 100% sure he didn't false start
> you cannot tell me he
> would have walked off.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Shane Roelofs
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Darren Alomes - Macquarie
>
>
> Accounting
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:
>
> ing.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [Oztrack] DQ Farce in Paris Men's
> 100
>
>
>
> 25/08/03 10:45 AM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The incidence is regrettable. Jon behaviour was
> childish BUT after
> watching replay a dozen times - it seems the only
> part of his body to move
> was his foot initially. It would also appear that
> he moved out of his
> blocks with the other athlete who was disqualified.
>
> A change in the rule should be looked at. Not sure
> how, could they use
> something on the start line?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Bennett
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:23 AM
> Subject: RE: [Oztrack] DQ Farce in Paris Men's 100
>
> From
>
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/more/08/24/worlds.sunday.ap.ap/index.h
>
> tml
>
> I have to agree with Ato Boldon said after the race
> below.
>
> He said Sunday's chaos was "way worse" than the
> Atlanta situation and
> blamed
> it on the International Association of Athletics
> Federations for its new
> false start rule.
>
> "We told them this rule was going to do this --
> someone was going to get
> thrown out and ruin the World Championships. That's
> exactly what they're
> doing," said Boldon, a friend and training partner
> of Drummond.
>
> "It's a wrong call. When the machine makes a wrong
> call, it's all over --
> 100,000 pairs of eyes could see, obviously, it was a
> wrong call."
>
> >>
>
> The IAAF needs to make rules that are suitable to
> smooth and fair
> competition not ones that are designed to suit TV
> better etc. All athletes
> should stand together and demand a return to the old
> rules which are much
> fairer and workable.
>
> The concept of timing pressure on starting blocks as
> a way of establishing
> a
> break has occurred needs to be more sophisticated
> than just the time. It
> should involve the force curve that is generated on
> the blocks to
> establish
> if the athlete simply adjusted pressure or made a
> full sustained force
> drive. Maybe it would be better to measure a break
> based on how early
> after
> the gun force on the rear block ends rather than
> starts or some other form
> of better system.
>
> In the past each athlete got one chance and could be
> extra careful - now
> with a one start rule the deficiency in the
> identification system is
> glaringly obvious.
>
>
>
> regards
> Steve Bennett
> www.oztrack.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, 25 August 2003 10:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Oztrack] DQ Farce in Paris Men's 100
>
>
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