Yeah, I do like to lob the odd hand grenade in then retreat quietly to observe 
Thinking out loud, is it to stop people taking advantage of a more âefficientâ stroke in the run into (or out of) the wall.
If youâre doing breastroke for example, having to touch the wall with both hands together, and level, means you have to do a breast stroke stroke into the wall. If you allowed one hand to touch the wall, or a tumble turn, you could throw in a sneaky front crawl stroke before and/or after the turn.
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Like they do in backstroke you mean 
. It does open up a pandoraâs box which inevitably leads to only 1 classification and itâs all freestyle.
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Fly and breast the stroke has to be synchronous so if you dont touch with both hands you are not swimming correctly. Im not sure why tumbles arent allowed. Br. Is worse on the underwater and breakout with specific order, fly kick, arm pull, br kick and must break surface before you finish the out scull on 2nd stroke, no max distance either where as other strokes must break surface within 15m. Back turn is odd, you can rotate onto front and use one forward arm pull into a tumble and must leave wall on back. Some are now perfecting a backwards tumble with a twist to get onto back before pushoff. IM turns are a bigger minefield, just watch Bk. to Br. Turns 
The latest issue though is Bk. finish with swimmers âdivingâ back to touch but some are fully submerging and getting DQâd
Dont get me started on kids galas, El Niño get a bk. finish DQ at 8 years old in a L4 meet because he looked for the wall so he didnt bang his head, and at a lot of galas you never find out the reason of the DQ so how can the kids learn. I am generally lenient if its not affecting medals and give kid/coach advice, but have got in trouble more than once for talking to the swimmers or where Ive âmissedâ something a referee picked up. Lots of jobsworths in judging.
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yeh - they can seem like that but when you dig deeper theyâre not so and all serve a useful purpose. WT review rules annually and if needed introduce new ones or scrap outdated ones and ensure wording fits with whatâs happening in events. For example, the support Ali B gave his brother Jonny B at the World Champs in Cozumel was not expressly written into the rules so there was no penalty despite protests from the Spanish camp ('cos a Spaniard - canât remember who now - missed out on the podium). This has now been written into the rules that one athlete cannot âsacrificeâ his own race to help another and both would be DQs - sacrifice is different to assisting (e.g. with tyre tubes etc) which is allowed.
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Could that relate to a dom on the bike stopping to pace someone back on?
Didnât Richard Murray do something similar by slowing down ridiculously so he could be overtaken in a race some years ago?
Do you think the rule around taking off helmets in T2 is going to be clarified after the Wilde penalty?
weâll have to see what WT say after the appeal is heard
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Womenâs TT never really in doubt
Is Gemili running the 200m?
Wonder what drama next lol
heâs split from his coach
That Matt walls crash was crazy. The speed he was going at
So you couldnât give a wheel or even your whole bike to a team mate if they were the better prospect for a medal?
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1500m heats 
Great colours everywhere on the track scenes
Presumably wightman favourite for gold?
tense heat, he was fine though
Donât, I couldnt get white trousers long enough so wear shorts, most do at a L3/4 gala anyway as its so hot poolside, but if I chose to judge Counties I would have to find white trousers.
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Womenâs hammer gold seems to be heading to Canada and weâre not out of qualifying yet, unless she no-throws on Saturday night
in triathlon no
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My dad was a timekeeper (long time ago 
) and touch judge. Why white at a poolside!!! Most ridiculous thing ever.
My best mates grandfather was the old dude that used walk up and down the side of the pool watching the stroke. I think he did Manchester commonwealth games.
At least some aspects of the sport are evolving. At snails paceâŠ
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Timekeeper, as it says is first rung, then J1 are turn judges, timekeepers (hit stopwatch and push the backup electronic timing button on the finish touch) or chief timekeepers (collect backup times for referee and run backup stopwatches for timekeepers). J2 are stroke judges up and down pool then start and finally referee overseeing it all. Mad the number of officials you have for a gala, 16 turn judges, starter (or 2) , 2 chief timekeepers, 2-4 Stroke judges, 2 or 3 referees then J1T and J2T trainees as well. Thats over 20 qualified officials a session! Add all the team managers, runners moving kids around pool in lane order to blocks and its a military operation
Us coaches just get in the way
Pedantic.
Too good to let past.
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Bit chaotic in the menâs TT with the number of riders being overtaken and their following cars having to be got out the way
I missed it all. When is the road race?
Iâm watching diving now because Iâm clearly an expert at that.
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