peace242000 wrote:
In defense of USAT for the racking penalties, the head official could not have made it more clear that this was a rule this year and that they would try to enforce it strictly. He spent like 5 minutes clarifying questions and telling all coaches to go back to their team and make sure everyone knew and to explain the racking procedure to them.
I fully agree that it was selectively enforced, and that's not right. One of our podium athletes lost about 30seconds a couple of years ago because he was trying to rack his bike correctly while the rest of the front guys had just thrown their's haphazardly into t2. Some type of rule needed to be made, but they should enforce it equally. And having two different racking rules for DL vs non-draft also seems a bit ridiculous.
Where in the rules books has this changed? It cannot be one officials opinion. And if it were not enforced equally, then, IMO, all the penalties for it should be thrown out!!!
As I said above, I usually cannot even get my bike seat under the bike racks, so it is not an option for me. Plus, IMO, racking my the bike seat is way less safe that using the brakes. I have also seen very small bikes trying to rack by the seat and all their wheels are off the ground and hitting the bikes around them.
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