One other swimming controversy is brewing on the Paris Olympics.
British swimmer Honey Osrin completed second within the semifinal of the ladies’s 200-meter backstroke Thursday with a time of two:07.84 — qualifying for Friday’s remaining.
Nevertheless, since-deleted footage from the race that surfaced on social media confirmed Osrin swimming previous the 15-meter mark underwater, which is grounds for disqualification.
However the judges by no means known as it.
Swimmers should breach the water earlier than the 15-meter mark at the beginning of the race and after every flip. A pink marker on the lane rope is used to guage the competitors.
Inside Paris La Protection Area in Nanterre, France, the place swimming occasions are being held, overhead and underwater cameras are used to watch potential infractions, based on the Olympics’ official web site.
Many on social media weren’t proud of the judges.
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“Why will we even have 15-meter judges in the event that they’re going to let one thing this blatant slide? Honey Osrin is the third seed for the ultimate on this. She must be DQ’d,” Sports activities Illustrated’s Pat Forde wrote Thursday on X.
“How did Lane 3 not get DQ’d right here?” College of Tampa assistant swim coach Phil Murray wrote on X, alongside a clip of the occasion.
Others known as out the “blatant” infraction and expressed, “Honey Osrin simply acquired tremendous fortunate in the event that they didn’t name 15 meters.”
Osrin, a first-time Olympian, completed behind defending champion Kaylee McKeown of Australia.
The 21-year-old Osrin recorded a private finest within the ladies’s 200-meter backstroke semifinal at 2:07.84.
She lowered her Olympic qualifying time of two:08.37 on the British Championships in April.
This hasn’t been the one swimming controversy on the Paris Video games.
British swimmer Luke Greenbank was disqualified within the heats of the lads’s 200-meter backstroke for going previous the 15-meter mark on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old was underwater past the 15-meter mark at the beginning of the race, a video replay revealed.
Osrin will compete within the ladies’s 200-meter backstroke remaining on Friday.
