timmywins wrote:
I also received the same penalty as Dan and a few others that year for racking the wrong way. The difference between now and then is that in 2017 it was the USAT officials that gave us the penalties. It wasn't another team that protested us racking the wrong way. That year it made USAT look bad because they only looked at how the top 40ish guys racked their bikes and gave penalties according. When there were 800+ other athletes that they didn't look at or give penalties to. What rubs me, other CU alumni, and other schools the wrong way, is that CU would be petty enough to protest a team that clearly won. Especially when it was all for a couple more inches of material on ONE of their athletes’ suits. If like Jack says, “The athletes who attended the mandatory MTR meeting recall that the same draft-legal uniform guidelines were presented at both DL and MTR meetings," then CU should have let USAT take care of it. If it was really that important to USAT that no one wear sleeves, then don't you think they would notice that someone who broke the tape and won the race was wearing them? If USAT hadn't of taken notice without a protest and didn't penalize them, then that would have told you that it wasn't important, and you need to train more for next year if you want to beat them. I'm a bit of a stickler for rules when they affect the performance of the athlete, however if I was the CU athlete then I would of just simply told the athlete before the race started. Regardless, I think USAT needs to look at it a different way. If something is called into question then the review and appropriate penalty should fall onto everyone. The enforcement of some rules in my experience is too arbitrary.
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Thomas Gerlach: Apr 10, 19 19:40