College Swimmer Gets DQ'd For Celebrating Too Hard After Winning A Race. Did The NCAA Do It Again Or Did The NCAA Do It Again?
SwimSwam -- A dramatic scene unfolded on Saturday night at the start of the last session of the 2024 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships.
NC State’s Owen Lloyd touched the wall in 14:37.04, ostensibly winning the ACC title. In celebration of his victory, Lloyd mounted the lane rope, eventually falling into the lane of his teammate and the runner-up Ross Dant, who was two seconds behind.
“Interfered with another swimmer” was the official declaration on the results as the reason for the disqualification.
I think we can all agree that when it comes to college swimmers "staying in their lane" over the last few years, the NCAA doesn't have a solid track record of actually enforcing any rules.
So the fact that this Owen Lloyd cat won the mile by 2 seconds, but then had that medal ripped off his neck by some dickhead in a suit and an NCAA credential badge because he celebrated too hard and fell into his teammates' lane? After his teammate and 2 other swimmers had already finished the race? Well here we go again with those pieces of shit at the National Collegiate Athletics Association doing everything they possibly can to abuse their power over their athletes.
They found some bullshit rule that had no implication on this race whatsoever and decided to pull it because they can. The NCAA is losing power left and right now with athletes getting paid and starting to unionize. They're pissed off and vengeful. So if they can find a way to ruin one of their athlete's dreams by using the rulebook in anyway they see fit, they're going to do it.
Fortunately for everybody, teammates like Ross Dant exist. He was eventually declared the winner of the race after Lloyd was disqualified. But he knows this is all a bunch of bullshit, and he's not going to let the NCAA get away with it.
You can see the celebration for yourself at the end of that clip. This moment right here is what the NCAA is going to use to strip an athlete of a win, and tell him that all the work and training he put into the year to get to that point means absolutely nothing.
There's not a depth of hell hot enough for anyone who works for the NCAA.