Was watching the 100m heats yesterday where some African sprinters got disqualified. Its truly heart breaking
watching them being sent off from such a slight mistake that they can't even understand at times. In all honestly World Athletics need to give them all at-least 2 chance for a false start in World events. Imagine training so hard for such an auspicious event and then not getting the chance to take part . It'll haunt you forever .
One part of me likes to thinks some of these top athletes are reacting faster than the speed of sound that results in the false start.
Anyway Just got me wondering, has there ever been a false start in long distance events where athlete were disqualified?