A well-intended but ridiculous rule designed to curb cheating,
ends up unfairly victimizing the innocent (ok let's assume the 15
year old autistic boy is innocent).
Special Olympics S’pore National Games: 15-year-old boy
disqualified for swimming too fast
He swam the race of his life and won a medal, only for the
performance to be nullified due to an obscure rule that defines
maximum effort. And it happened not once, but thrice.
This was what happened to a 15-year-old autistic boy who took
part in the Special Olympics Singapore National Games swimming
competition held at United World College of South East Asia on May
21.
He had won the 50m freestyle race and was disqualified for
“swimming too fast”. He subsequently won a silver in the 100m
freestyle event, but was disqualified for the same reason. A
re-race was held, and despite him slowing down deliberately, he was
still denied a bronze medal after coming in third in the race.
http://mothership.sg/2017/05/special-olympics-spore-national-games-15-year-old-boy-disqualified-for-swimming-too-fast/
