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Fool Running (OT)
Posted By: Colin Owen In Response To: Fool Running (Michael Petch)
Date: Thursday, 29 January 2015, at 5:16 a.m.
As not completing any of the runs disallows a Bobsled team (or an individual, as in the case of Luge and Skeleton) from a final classification, it seems they are not allowed to take any subsequent runs. Shame, as coming back from a crash to successfully complete could be a real confidence restorer. Sport is supposed to be character building.
If, instead of aggregate time for the runs, they took aggregate speed (ie harmonic mean of the times rather than the arithmetic mean) then a DNF run could still be carried forward to the final total, as a 'zero' of course. Theoretically, at least, such a team could still place highly (or even win).
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