You’ve trained hard all year and the day is finally here…Its swim meet day. You’re nervous, but excitied. You know that you have put all the training in you could. You calm the butterflies and step onto the block, the starters gun goes and you’re off. Swimming your heart out, you touch the pads at the finish and look up at the score board, a personal best. YES. All that hard work has paid off. You go to your coach for feed back about your swim, but they look really sad, you’ve been disqualified. What did you do wrong???
Its heartbreaking when you get disqualified, please see the new disqualification form from British Swimming here to see what swimming actions will result in a disqualification.