In a message dated 5/28/01 13:12:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<What a great meet at Prefontaine! Webb was inspiring, Greene was the
sportsman of the day! I wonder if any opinions about the one false start
rule
have changed - I bet it would have sat Jarret in the blocks and kept him from
stalingrad the race! >>
Jarrett was out sooo early (I was kneeling beside the starter some 4m out and
there was literally daylight between Jarrett and the others before the gun
went off) that I have to think it was more of a brain-fart than any concerted
attempt to beat the gun. A guy chockfull of adrenaline who just couldn't take
it anymore. I'm not sure nailing his hands to the track would have kept him
still.
Drummond's non-stop mantra after the race (and again to me a couple of hours
later) was that if the NFS rule had been in place he wouldn't even have been
there to see Jarrett do a Jesse James. (Jon had a flase start charged
previous to the "real" getaway.)
He was so genuinely distraught at the whole thing that I decided not to ask
him the hard question, which was, "If the NFS rule was in operation, would
you have been charged with the FS, or would you have made sure you didn't
jump early?" Different rules make for different circumstances.
gh
