IAAF Agrees to No False Start Rule, by Alfons Juck, Note by Larry Eder

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The IAAF has voted to enforce a no false start rule for 2010. Good news is no global champs in 2010, so it gives sprinters a year to get used to the rule. TV directors and producers will be ecstatic, as four false starts could kill the drama in a TV sports show featuring our sport.
The other issue is going to have to be that the federation must be quite careful in changing equipment used in starting blocks and starting guns as well. One of the key issues in the past three world championships and Olympics has been the lack of familiarity with the equipment and the issues with starters, especially in early rounds.
Zero tolerance with false starts
BERLIN (GER): From January 2010 no false starts in sprints will be allowed in athletics. The 47th IAAF Congress approved the change of the rule (97 votes against 55 and 6 abstentions) so that already first false start will mean a disqualification. There is no global senior competition in 2010 and so athletes will be able to get used to it at meetings and continental events before next World Championships in 2011 in Daegu. Tuvalu was officially accepted as 213th IAAF member country confirming that athletics is the biggest sport in the world in terms of member countries.
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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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