Re: t-and-f: Proposed rule changes-IAAF

[Dgs1170]

Are these proposed changes for the speed of the sport?
I do not get it.
Reducing the pegs of the PV serves who?  I see very little wrong with the
current state of the PV.  What I do see is less clearances in the future.  So
what if the bar bounces and stays, that is part of the drama of the event.  
There is nothing like the bobbing of the crowd with the bar, as it bounces,
not knowing whether it will stay or fall.  Why minimize that occurrence?
The false start rule I see the point, but I honestly think the elimination of
the competitors is not a good alternative.  Yes, the sprinters need to stop
jumping, but no matter how many false starts, once the race is of no one
remembers who jumped or how many times.  Further, there is no guarantee that
this will solve the problem.  A perfect example is the US indoor nationals.  
The starter was holding an extraordinary amount of time, prompting some to
get their rule books out.  The scary part about it all is that, after a
competitor jumped out of the race, the starter had a quick gun on the
subsequent start.  As long as, a human is starting the race, and humans are
running the race we will have false starts.  With one false start, you could
conceivably have the elimination of the best in the field.  In other words
the race is taken off the track.

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