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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our pool had a similar DQ issue during an A meet last year. It was a stroke that requires a two-hand touch during the turn. The video clearly showed one swimmer come to the wall, both hands out of the water and firmly planted on the wall, then the turn. Next swimmer came in, one hand grazed the wall during the turn while the other hand flailed through the air. Clear as day which swimmer missed the two-hand touch.

S&T wrote down the wrong lane. Team rep challenged it with the video, but the ref wouldn't change it. Two-hand swimmer lived with the DQ. Oh well ... she won it the following week. [/quote]

Do you know how many calls are missed or mistaken by refs in kids' team sports? A lot. This is like that. Human error is just part of the deal. It stinks when your kid is on the losing end of it, but it's just something that is unfortunately going to be part of the deal unless or until we have robots/AI doing these jobs. And I don't think we want that.[/quote]

PP here - exactly. My point in telling that story is that it happens all the time, it's not something to get upset over. It's just part of the deal in playing sports - sometimes you're on the wrong end of a bad call.  When my kids complain about a bad call, I remind them of how often they've also benefited from a wrong call - it all evens out in the end.

If we forced refs to consider videos after the fact, they'd be flooded with videos of every single race. We need to keep things moving, and that means living with the call on the deck. [/quote]

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