Bolt: Change the false-start rule
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Your support makes all the difference.Five weeks after his disqualification from the 100m final at the World Championships in Daegu, Usain Bolt has voiced his opposition to the "zero tolerance" false-start rule.
"They really should go back to one false start and charge it to the field," the Jamaican sprinter said, speaking on a trip to California. "It's easier. Somebody makes one mistake and everybody can relax."
The world's fastest man has clearly had a change of heart. After bouncing back from his 100m false start with a victory in the 200m final in Daegu, he had said: "I was disappointed to be thrown out but it was my own fault, so I can't complain. I knew the rule."
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