North Carolina State Senior Owen Lloyd posted the fastest time in the Men’s 1650-yard Freestyle, earning him the ACC Title, an automatic entry to the National Championships, and a new best time. Moments later, an announcement was made that Lloyd had been disqualified for “interference with another swimmer.”
The rule(s) at play from the NCAA rulebook:
– Rule 2, Section 5, Article 1a: “Any competitor who interferes with another swimmer during a race shall be disqualified from that race, subject to the discretion of the referee…”
– Rule 2, Section 5, Article 1b: “A swimmer who changes lanes during a heat shall be disqualified.”
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this sport does damn near everything in its power to disallow fun
The referee or judge that called that and thought that ruling appropriate when the infraction made no difference to the race at all should be disqualified from these competitions as clearly he doesn't understand what the rule means and what it is there to prevent. He is abusing the rule on a trivial technicality. They should not stand for jobs worths like that that can't use discretion. It will just ruin the sportsmanship of the sport.
judge has double digit iq, same as police officers
Being judged by someone who has never swam 50m in under 25 seconds "is crazy" as the current generation would say
Hey but if you go swim with your dick in a womens race you can not get disqualified, fair world!
I don’t fell sorry for him one bit. Out of all the swimming competitions, people win all the time and celebrate. But he crossed lanes which is a clear violation so he got penalized for it. All he had to do was stay in his lane and cheer for as long as he wanted until the race was over!
Ahahaha! You dumb dumb u shoulda kept your trap shut and been docile. They didn't like the show-off attitude. They should have hauled your ass to jail!
All this is is some random no name 50-60 something that has nothing left going for them in life and saw this kid celebrate his moment and had to shut it down. No one in the building thinks it was unsportsmanlike and no one in the building would agree to disqualify him. Its so obvious its just one disgruntled loser
Who are these judges and what have they ever accomplished???
"interference with another swimmer"
You mean his team mate, who had also finished? Such clowns lol
Why is the lane thing even a written rule? I get that people shouldnt do it, but its such an obvious thing that it should not need to be written down. Is there also a rule in there about murdering anybody as well? This rule also clearly meant to stop someone disturbing someone who is still going, which didnt happen.
what a pathetic group of judges. definitely a bunch of has beens that couldn't make it in the sport and now seek to control it because they could never win it.
Look I get the rule, but maybe give him a slap on the wriet, but don't away his hard-earned win.
Idiot judge
The athletes should be able to band together to disqualify the referees
Celebrating uncut? Is being cut considered more aerodynamic?
When being a hardass goes wrong…
This is what happens when you have people more concerned with the rules than the reason they are all there. The contestant didn’t disturb another’s race and the interactions with the other contestant were celebratory. I have seen track runners congratulate and hug each other, surprisingly no one died and the sport is still going strong.
I think its time to stop taking these ridiculous "top tier" competitions so seriously
nah we need to boycott the olympics so hard. Honestly imagine if all the other swimmers just instantly disqualified themselves and just left with lloyd, so they have literally no one there to finish and be on the padestal. That would be so amazing to see. Seriously fuck the olympics, disgusting soulsucking fuckers who dont appreciate the inhuman work these athletes have to put into their achievements. Fat fucking 300 kilo referee who could never swim 30% as fast as lloyd going like ughh yeah yeah no thats a disqualify ughh its insane how unapreciated these athletes go
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If he was trans he wouldve gotten a performance award
I see a lot of people who clearly haven't played a sport before. "A rule is a rule" is one of the dumbest arguments to have when it doesn't effect anyone. It's like in wrestling if you get DQ'd because you took off your ankle color before they announced the winner.
This reminds me of the time I got in trouble in elementary school for choking on chocolate milk and spitting a tiny droplet on this mean kid‘s homework paper. I was told to stop playing around.
2:14 it’s so sad. You can see the pain in his eyes.
“He won”
“Yay I won”
“DISQUALIFIED!!!”
but transgenders in sports is totally ok lmaooo
2:11 Is What I'm Here for!
professional sports suck so bad it's all respectability politics
He spent two thirds of his life preparing for this moment.
You're damn right he's gonna celebrate!
This was a terribly unfair moment in sporting history.
Dude this is actually really sad,
This is like that time when I was in 1st grade and I got a smiley face at the end of the day, and then my teacher changed it to a frowny face because I celebrated getting a smiley.