The Seattle Times · Aug 17, 2019
Sideline Chatter: Triathletes also used hands to express opinion on disqualification
And you thought NFL rules were overly draconian?
The top two female finishers at a 2020 Tokyo Games triathlon test event got DQ’d for staging “a contrived finish” — holding hands while crossing the finish line.
Clemson, not to be outdone, self-reportied a violation to the NCAA for “impermissible use of confetti” during a football recruit’s campus visit.
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• At TheOnion.com: “Flipping Simone Biles still floating through upper mesosphere.”
• At Fark.com: “Dale Earnhardt Jr. survives crash. Difficulty: plane crash.”
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