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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1051321" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>I know, I just disagree with him that it's all that complicated. Yes there's limited time to get on and get set - but it's also a full lap, so they've got 40 seconds to do so; and we're talking about professional athletes not knowing where the start line is, and having to be told. Not to mention grown arse adults potentially being grown arse adult, and seeing that literally every other competitor is starting way, way behind them, and not realising that anything is wrong. IIRC Jordan also pointed out the official desperately trying to tell her that she was stood in the wrong place and needed to backup.</p><p>Yes, it happened in another round, and the professionals realised and reset (whilst starting in the outer lanes, where there's not supposed to be a competitor in their eyeline) - which kinda proves that a competent athlete can realise where the start line is for themselves.</p><p></p><p>Can you imagine in rugby "The ref didn't tell me where the half way line was to start the match, so I took the drop kick from the opposition's 10m line - it's not my fault, it's the ref's"</p><p></p><p>I know the pundits were all on the athlete's side, and I know that my opinion on this is an unpopular one; but I just find it utterly incomprehensible that an experienced professional athlete doesn't know where the start line is without being told.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1051321, member: 73592"] I know, I just disagree with him that it's all that complicated. Yes there's limited time to get on and get set - but it's also a full lap, so they've got 40 seconds to do so; and we're talking about professional athletes not knowing where the start line is, and having to be told. Not to mention grown arse adults potentially being grown arse adult, and seeing that literally every other competitor is starting way, way behind them, and not realising that anything is wrong. IIRC Jordan also pointed out the official desperately trying to tell her that she was stood in the wrong place and needed to backup. Yes, it happened in another round, and the professionals realised and reset (whilst starting in the outer lanes, where there's not supposed to be a competitor in their eyeline) - which kinda proves that a competent athlete can realise where the start line is for themselves. Can you imagine in rugby "The ref didn't tell me where the half way line was to start the match, so I took the drop kick from the opposition's 10m line - it's not my fault, it's the ref's" I know the pundits were all on the athlete's side, and I know that my opinion on this is an unpopular one; but I just find it utterly incomprehensible that an experienced professional athlete doesn't know where the start line is without being told. [/QUOTE]
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