10k Women's Classic

Norway definitely recovering - or feeling against the wall. What
exactly was Becky Scott DQ'd for and in what place was she when it
happened?

Gene

From TSN:

"Teammate Beckie Scott of Vermilion, Alta., was disqualified for skiing
in the wrong track in the final stretch through the stadium. "

Based on her finish time she hadn't done that well anyway.

bt

From Fasterskier.com
http://www.fasterskier.com/racing3113.html

"Beckie eventually was disqualified for leaving the course and not
re-entering at the same point. The skiers were to ski a lap of the
stadium before the finish and Beckie first started down the finish lane
before realizing her mistake and cutting over to the lap lane. The
rules require that she should have backtracked to the start of the lap
lane and continued on her way."

At Umea in 2004, Lukas Bauer posted the fastest time on the course but
then was DQ'd for doing something similar -
http://www.fasterskier.com/racing924.html

Here are some photos that show, at least partially, what happened.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/even...NlYwNzc25hdg--

Looks like he tried to direct her the right way but she went straight
instead of going to her left.

Photos are from Yahoo.

Dave

tassava wrote:
From Fasterskier.com
http://www.fasterskier.com/racing3113.html

"Beckie eventually was disqualified for leaving the course and not
re-entering at the same point. The skiers were to ski a lap of the
stadium before the finish and Beckie first started down the finish lane
before realizing her mistake and cutting over to the lap lane. The
rules require that she should have backtracked to the start of the lap
lane and continued on her way."

At Umea in 2004, Lukas Bauer posted the fastest time on the course but
then was DQ'd for doing something similar -
http://www.fasterskier.com/racing924.html

"sknyski" wrote in message
ups.com...
Based on her finish time she hadn't done that well anyway.

bt

She was backslipping badly going up hills. Besides, IMO I think see peaked
much too early in the season. At the 2,6km mark, she was already behind the
leader by 14 seconds. And the eventual winners hadn't reach that distance
yet...

BarryT

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:16:59 -0500, "BarryT"
wrote:
Besides, IMO I think see peaked
much too early in the season. At the 2,6km mark,
she was already behind the
leader by 14 seconds. And the eventual winners
hadn't reach that distance yet...

Yeah, you sure can tell that from one race. I mean, sure she skiied
one the fastest legs at the end of the team sprint a couple days ago,
but the she's obviously heading downhill now due to mispeaking.

JFT

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