2019 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- All sports: Friday, July 12 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- Pool swimming: Sunday, July 21 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- The Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, Korea
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Following a drawn-out saga to determine if she touched did indeed do a non-simultaneous touch on the first wall of her Worlds 200 breast prelims swim, outspoken Olympian Lilly King admitted Friday after seeing video that the disqualification call was correct.
“They made the right call,” King said, according to the Associated Press. “When you saw it in super slo-mo and super zoom, I definitely did it.”
It took about 30 minutes after her race for USA Swimming to find out and announce what King had been called for. The organization filed a protest, which they lost, then took it to FINA’s Jury of Appeal, which also upheld the initial call.
Video review is in use at this meet (only to overturn calls, not to make new ones), and it’s extremely rare for the Jury to overturn a call when that is the case.
“I really appreciate everyone’s effort to try to get it overturned, but it was so over the top,” King added. “I think it would have been very difficult to see with the human eye personally, but I think the official was standing at just the right angle and she got me… The officials are there to do their job and that’s what they did.”
It wouldn’t be Lilly King without a hint of controversy in her response, however. Earlier in the meet, she criticized FINA over its handling of the Sun Yang situation, and supported Mack Horton in his podium protest of the Chinese star.
“I don’t think anyone at FINA is going to stand up for the athletes, so the athletes have to stand up for themselves,” she said at the time.
Thus, she didn’t shut down the conspiracy theory that has briefly circulated – without logical base – that FINA could have been retaliating against her.
“Do I think maybe something I had said about FINA earlier maybe came back to haunt me in the jury? Yeah, probably,” King said, “but I’m still going to stand up for what I believe in and in the end the official made the right call.”
3 weeks ago, GoSwim published a warning video about this open turn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQRJGZehtoE
Now it is Yulia’s turn to come out and admit she did PEDs
There is a video from NBC, despite being slow motion, it was obvious:
https://deadspin.com/swimming-controversy-lasts-about-a-day-before-lilly-kin-1836717708
Many of these cameras can film at 25,000 frames a second. It will be obvious that the hands did not touch simultaneously from one frame to the next one that is 4 one hundred thousandths of a second later.
The standard of review should be whether the initial call was unreasonable when the video is replayed at full speed.
Yeah, just get that competitive edge or advantage. Parents, she should be DQed all her career and your kids were robbed of the medals.
As a practical matter it is simply not possible to touch both hands at the exact same time. Whether there is a thousandth or a millionth of a second separating the touches.
The standard that is being applied is whether or not the turn judge can perceive the hands not touching simultaneously. Therefore, it is inappropriate to use super slowmo to review.
Voice of reason.
I feel this admission is coming from somewhere else. Even if she knew she did it, why say anything at all? Now officials will be watching her even closer.
Doesn’t make sense
Doesn’t make sense? I get what you’re saying, someone like Phelps or Dressel probably wouldn’t go there, Lilly has never been one to keep her opinions to herself.
As a member of the media, I can appreciate her approach 🙂
Respectfully disagree. Its like announcing to everyone that you do an extra dolphin kick at the end of a race, or you purposely go 15+ meters underwater. All I’m saying is, if you get dqed, and you know why you did, then take the dq quietly. Why intentionally bring more attention (albeit from officials, underwater cameras, coaches) to something that is dq worthy?
Its like getting pulled over by a cop and saying “Hey, not only was I just speeding, but I speed at this same spot, every time, every day”
You claimed that it doesn’t make sense for Lilly to say this, and used that to justify the idea that there’s some puppetmaster making her say these things. What I’m saying is that it makes absolute sense that Lilly would say this, because of her personality and historical honesty, and so I don’t see a puppetmaster as the most likely outcome. Then you’ve disagreed with “well most people wouldn’t do this.” But we’re not talking about most people – we’re talking about Lilly King, and it does align with that which we know about Lilly that she would admit to it of her own volition. Was your expectation for her to lie when asked a question about whether she thinks… Read more »
My expectation was for her to say nothing.
but even after admitted doing an extra dolphin kick during breast stroke pull out, future swims of the same swimmer still not called for dq at all… exhibit #1 Cameron van der Burgh 2012 Olympic 100m Breaststroke.
Look at the criticism her teammate Cody Miller gets for alleged dolphin kicks and he never even admitted to doing it. I’m just wondering why give people any kind of excuse for criticism. I get it, King marches to the beat of her own drum. Cool. I personally just don’t understand her actions.
She is not being honest. At this level, it is all about muscle memory. She still complained about others.
Officials will be watching everyone more closely. I am quite certain I have let nonsimultaneous pass before. I have learned a lot from this.
Just shut up and swim.
If they are able to bust these swimmers on super hard to catch things like this then why can’t they bust those that do the multiple dolphin kicks???
It’s not hard to catch it’s easy to see if you are standing there!