After putting up the top time this morning and coming within four one-hundredths of the Canadian national record in the 100m butterfly it was revealed that Santo Condorelli was disqualified and would not be swimming in tonight’s finals.
Condorelli put up a 52.32 before taking the disqualification. According to the stroke and turn judge in Condorelli’s lane, he was disqualified for non-simultaneous touch, this has not yet been verified.
With Condorelli out of the 100m butterfly it puts Oakville’s Mack Darragh in a great position to take home the win tonight. Darragh won the 200m butterfly earlier in the meet, however if he wants to clinch a butterfly sweep he’s going to have to take down Coleman Allen.
Allen was a 53.75 to take the second Canadian seed behind Darragh and has been a staple in Canadian butterfly swimming over the last few seasons.
The winner of the 100m butterfly will likely gain a spot on the Olympic squad even if they don’t make the FINA ‘A’ standard. Under Priority Five and Priority Six the winner should be given an Olympic berth for the 4x100m medley relay – and even if they don’t swim fast enough High Performance Director John Atkinson has the ability to nominate a swimmer in order to fill in empty relay spots.
While the disqualification clearly isn’t what Condorelli hoped for, he already made the Canadian Olympic team in the 100m freestyle last night after a 48.16 performance that gave him the win and set him up perfectly to head to his first Olympic Games.
While Condorelli won’t be swimming the 100m butterfly, he has one more event on his schedule: the 50m freestyle where he’s the favourite to once again take home the gold.
There is never an ulterior motive? Please swim officials are human. Occasionally, humans let emotions cloud their judgement. I’m not saying that’s what happened here, but please
He messed up a turn and got dq’d. End of story. I saw that there were 15 comments and assumed that something juicy had happened that I could read some swim gossip about. I was wrong.
Personally, I’d like him to just focus on the 50 and 100 free’s this year. He’s actually a contender in those races, not so much in the 100 fly. It would be cool if he developed his 100 fly over the next quad, however. Maybe he could have some success in 2020, but I don’t consider him a factor for 2016.
LPB – There is uproar here that the team is small and no one is making it.. don’t worry CA aint trying to get more.. if anything, they want less and less!
Video replay showed uneven hands
Political? In what way? Swimmers make mistakes. Why conclude that it should be overturned? The officials are looking straight down at the wall getting soaked while they do and have years of experience. Sad that he was dq’d but officials call what they see no matter how good a swimmer is. There is never an alterior motive and for the life of me I can’t even fathom what it could be if there was. Every Canadian wants the team to do well. Give the volunteers a break. They spend their time and money to help the sport.
Apparently it wasn’t a “one handed turn” it was for “uneven hands” wall placement. Even more of a BS call. Who is to say that mistake wasn’t on the swimmer but on the official? I’m just saying that is a very difficult call to make. Has anyone seen video? Why shouldn’t video evidence be allowed not only in this case, but any. People make mistakes, both officials and swimmers. There is a reason why other professional sports use video replay when possible.
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And this information was from where? Please, saying Canada is trying to get more people on the team by dqing a swimmer on the team already? That is just ridiculous. I am not sure if they post the reason for the dq but as of right now it doesn’t look like anyone really knows so once again stop bashing the officials.
I agree with you.
I don’t understand the outrage.
Swimmers make mistakes, and sometimes even stupid mistakes.
Swimmers also sometimes under-perform and not swimming fast on the day, etc etc.
Why is this hard to accept?
This call should be investigated and overturned. Is there video evidence?? Something this big should not be taken lightly. This is a swimmer who has practiced God knows how many turns in his life and I can’t imagine he would pick OLYMPIC TRIALS to give a one handed turn a try.
Crazy for letting this happen. Crazy and stupid.
Otylia Jedreczak, Olympics champion and WR holder, who has practiced God knows how many finishes in her life and I can’t imagine she would pick WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL to give a one handed finish a try.
And yet… she DID!!!
funny how he is the favorite by about 2 seconds and they allow him to get DQ and he has never been DQ in his life !
I am sure he has been dq’d before but that isn’t the point. Are you saying if you are the favourite you don’t have the same rules as the other swimmers? He made a mistake as all people including swimmers do. Unfortunately it was at Olympic trials. He probably knows he made the mistake and hopefully he can move on with the rest of the meet with integrity. Good luck Santo.
I’d bet his reaction is going to be to flip the bird to the officials
Post of the day right here.
I doubt that would be a wise thing to do.