You literally have a website that is called coupleofathletes.com about you and your newly wed wife and how you're bonding, but you're calling them snowflakes... They are roommates, best friends, and just crushed everyone in the race. They'd dunk all over you. sit down and shut up

This.

OP complains about the way training partners celebrate. Has an "everyone look at me" website.

Did he complain about how training partners celebrate or did he complain about how other people are illogically taking issue with a properly enforced rule? I can’t remember...

The system itself does eliminate ties, look back to London, they had to go to thousandths of a second to split Spirig and Norden for Olympic gold and silver, the rule doesn't prevent tying, it prevents contrived ties...

I don't think their premise was to cheat the system, if anything it was more to give the system the middle finger, since it didn't matter what either of them did in the event, because it was shortened, neither could auto-qualify for the olympics, and there is no prize money at the test event... But based on both of posts from both Jess and Georgia on their social media, there was no ill-intent, they are friends and training partners, and they wanted to share the victory, realizing that whomever beat the other really changed nothing for them... Reading between the lines, it looked like they wanted to share the experience, who beat whom made no difference between them in terms of olympic selection, or prize money, or WTS standings, and they were unaware of the rule that meant those actions would result in a DSQ...


Again, I'm not defending the rule, because I'm not sure that i agree with it, but regardless, it's a rule that's clear and explicit in the rulebook at the moment, so it had to be enforced... I won't be shocked to see that rue being modified or removed in the next revision to the ITU rules...

Yo - totally agree, the rule was properly enforced, it's probably clear at this point that they weren't aware they were breaking the rule and didn't intend for this. If they had held hands like 3 seconds later nothing would have come and all would have been fine, and Synthetic could go back to never having heard of ITU racing before this incident. I have an issue with him basically saying that they're awful humans for trying to celebrate a great moment together, and talking about how they "sandbagged" while they just beat a world champion by a couple seconds.

everyone wins mentality.

Haha! This was the exact opposite of "everyone wins". (DQ aside) They crossed the line 1-2.

I love internet 'splaining of "competitive spirit" to athletes who could metaphorically rip your still-beating heart out and show it to you in a triathlon, 95% of men on this forum included.

So would you have less objection to the rule, if they drop the term contrived tie and simply state "Athletes who make no effort to separate their finish times, will be disqualified"?

You could call the finishing maneuver a tomato for all I care, what's really the important part of the rule and how it's applied is that piece I stated above, not whether or not there is .001 seconds between them or it's "a tie"...

Hello Trauma and All,

Trauma wrote in part: So would you have less objection to the rule, if they drop the term contrived tie and simply state "Athletes who make no effort to separate their finish times, will be disqualified"?

In the same vein .....

Here is a $56,100 fine for 'not trying hard enough' ...

https://www.today.com/...bledon-match-t157769

Excerpt:





Wimbledon officials had a clear message for Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic after his first-round loss this week: You're going to need to try a little harder than that.

Tomic, 26, was fined the maximum of £45,000 ($56,100) for his underwhelming play in a 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 loss Tuesday to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.