Not T and F, but overall the most famous was Rosie Ruiz.
Not T and F, but overall the most famous was Rosie Ruiz.
neither T+F nor a famous one, but an interesting DQ who almost got away with it.
Statto wrote:
In decathlon you are allowed 2 false starts, Hingsen actually had 3! How unlucky can you be ...not.
http://www.decathlon2000.ee/eng/athletes.php?art=606
Hingsen was about as subtle in that one as Johnson with his jaundiced eyeballs and incredible hulk physique.
'96 Oly: 200 favorite Gwen Torrance and Maria Mutola (800) both for lane violations.
Not a DQ, but Mary Slaney lost any sympathy for an interference plea with her post-fall histrionics.
And Jen Toomey should have gotten DQed in the '04 trials for attempting to run Tollefson off the track in the final 100 of the 1500. Karma intervened and her career went down the toilet.
Five or ten years ago, a girls' 4x400 team made the News of the Weird when they got DQ'd at the Ohio state meet. Their sports bras were not all the same color.
XCTC wrote:
'96 Oly: 200 favorite Gwen Torrance and Maria Mutola (800) both for lane violations.
Mutola's lane violation was '95 worlds. She got bronze at Atlanta in '96.
ardmore wrote:
XCTC wrote:'96 Oly: 200 favorite Gwen Torrance and Maria Mutola (800) both for lane violations.
Mutola's lane violation was '95 worlds. She got bronze at Atlanta in '96.
ya know, I ALMOST wrote that, then thought maybe that a DQ was why she didn't get the gold in '96. Instead, it was a squeaky-clean Russian and an on-fire Ana Quirot.
One year in the '90's- The Alabama women were DQ'ed in the 4X400 for one of the runners having one foot oustide of the exchange zone while waiting for the baton.
It gave them no advantage in the race but the DQ cost them first place in that race and in the team title where LSU won by less than 10 points over Alabama.
Personally I was DQ'ed in high school in a 400m race when I leaned and fell across the line when the starter said "set" (I did a standing start).
In college, my team had the #1 time in the country in the 4X800 going into NCAA's. My coach ran an alternate in my place in the trial round. I was to run the final until we found out that we would have been DQ'ed since the first round race was considered a substitution and I couldn't be substituted back.
I watched the final from the stands while our first leg (my leg) ran bad and the team clawed back to finish 3rd.
That was my last college meet and I naver made All America.
Woulda, coulda shoulda...
Ancient One wrote:
Dorando Pietri.
Look it up.
I agree this is hands-down the winner. The rest of this thread is about the second most famous DQ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorando_Pietriya, that drummond was a little embarassing to watch. but i gotta feel for the guy.
If by karma you mean winning the 1500 at indoor nats the next year....then yeah....your right.
rosie ruiz
A few years ago, I forget when, at the NCAA's the LSU coach got the Texas? womens 4x100 DQed for using tennis balls as relay exchange markers. This was significant because it gave South Carolina 2 extra points, and they ultimately beat LSU by 1 point for the championship. Had LSU not gotten Texas DQed, they would have won.
book em Dan-o. Dan & Dave; Dan PV dq in Oly Trials
First thing that came to mind was Budd in '84. Christie after that. Then Marsh.
I'm pretty sure that it was in the 1500 (that's right, the 1500). He false started twice, when a few tenths of a second would have made no difference. (If it wasn't him, it was another decathlete in the Olypmics).
I'd agree that Roise Ruiz is one of the most famous DQ's ever
Were Tommie Smith and John Carlos stripped of their medals for their protest at the '68 Olympics or just banned from the games and the US team?
I agree this is hands-down the winner. The rest of this thread is about the second most famous DQ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorando_Pietri
who wrote this... what does "Race was started at 14.33 of July 24, 1908." even mean...
2:33 PM on 07/24/08. Seems pretty clear to me
No, they were not stripped off their medals.
no one wrote:
book em Dan-o. Dan & Dave; Dan PV dq in Oly Trials
That is quite a famous goof-up by Dan costing Reebok a bunch, but is it technically a DQ?
On a not as famous level, a girls team from Florida was DQ'd from their 3rd(?)place finish at state CC because the coach of another team argued that their bum huggers were too skimpy. The same uniforms they wore all year with no other complaints.