Sports and Miscellaneous: Denied!

Denied!

By Anonymous - 17/04/2009 17:07 - United States

Today, I swam in a race against all of the girls in the midwest in the hardest, longest, most grueling race you can swim. I won. Happy but so tired I could barely move, I looked up to see my time. I had been disqualified. For flinching. Before the race started. FML

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You deserved it 6 676

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By :( - 14/06/2013 04:06 - United States - Parker

Today, I was at a swim meet, swimming as hard as I'd ever swum before. During the last lap I saw no one in the lanes next to me. Thinking I was first, I became extremely excited. When I came to the wall, I realized the reason no one else was around: They already finished the race. I was last. FML

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By suckatlifeeexo - 25/04/2009 05:44 - United States

Today, I was at a swim meet. I was on a relay team and I was the anchor. My team was in 1st. I was ready to dive in when I saw my tampon string was hanging out of my suit. I freaked, slid off the block, and fell on top of the guy before me and gave him a concussion. We got DQed for a false start FML

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You deserved it 17 026

The sweet sighs of disappointment

By ThatGuyWhoRolled - 05/01/2023 14:00 - United Kingdom - Cambridge

Today, I was up against two others in a 120m race on my school's sports day. Unexpectedly, I heard my name being chanted from most of the classes watching and well, this made me want to win so much that I leaned forward too much whilst running and ended up tripping and rolling on the track. I heard loud sighs after. FML

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Draining

By grlzze444 - 16/11/2010 00:19 - United States

Today, my swim coach had me swim a 400 meter freestyle. Feeling a little sick near the end, I lifted my head to breathe, then burped, and threw up violently all in the pool. All my team mates screamed horrified running out of the pool, and now they have to drain it. I was told not to come back. FML

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You deserved it 4 149

By mathii - 23/07/2011 23:52 - France

Today, I was in swimming practice at the pool. I suddenly got breathless, dizzy, and felt like I was drowning. I cried out to the instructor, telling him I had a weak heart. He shouted back, "I don't care about your love life! Swim, bitch!" FML

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You deserved it 6 170

Bellyflop

By Anonymous - 12/03/2023 20:00 - United States

Today, I tried to impress our swim team coach by doing a complicated backflip from the diving board. I landed face-first in the pool and had to be rescued by the lifeguard, so I guess I won't be going to the Olympics any time soon. FML

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You deserved it 846

By fat teen - 05/06/2016 23:33 - United Kingdom - Leeds

Today, I decided to get back in shape so I went swimming. I only managed 10 lengths and was completely out of breath. I was so embarrassed that when a lifeguard asked me if I was OK, I made up a story about a leg injury as a reason to leave only 15 minutes after I got in. FML

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You deserved it 2 332

Good cause, bad knees

By Anonymous - 15/10/2023 22:00

Today, I took part in a charity run for a good cause. I'd trained for months and showed up, only to trip and fall flat on my face at the starting line. I spent the rest of the race with scraped knees and a bruised ego. FML

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By Anonymous - 31/07/2014 05:00 - Australia - Darlinghurst

Today, a new session started for my swimming squad. I walked down to the pool, tripped over a stray equipment bag, and belly-flopped into the pool in front of everyone, fully clothed. I'm the coach. FML

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By Username - 05/06/2019 20:00

Today, at the beach, I swam pretty far out into the ocean. I ended up getting pummelled by the waves and got a painful cramp in my leg. The whole beach watched me flail and scream, while my friends rolled their eyes as they dragged me out of the water. FML

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You deserved it 930

MiseryLotus 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 1:59

How is that grounds for disqualification? And shouldn't they have told you before the race started that you were disqualified?

SilentGround 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 2:02

this actually is an fml. i'm sorry, that really sucks. don't let it weigh you down though, it'll only make you feel bad in the long run. :/

Comments

Hummingbird114 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 6:38

#39 Love it! I have to remember that one...

Ric3ball 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 6:40

wow I' d be pissssssed. FYL.

Osakhomen 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 6:41

Man, that's really a bummer.

Coleman003 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 6:42

Hate to break this wonderfull story.... but the MIDWEST sectionals was on march 6th... MIDWEST Sectionals= top 4% of swimmers in the midwest i was there and nobody DQ'd in the 1650, 500, or any of the final races in finals night. not to disgrace or anything. and i hate when that happens! i dont understand how officals think that a flich will somehow give you an advantage in a race

Coleman003 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 6:44

but the MIDWEST sectionals was on march 6th... MIDWEST Sectionals= top 4% of swimmers in the midwest i was there and nobody DQ'd in the 1650, 500, or any of the final races in finals night.

ali_said 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 6:47

ahhh that sucksss ! =/

skittlesxmonster 5

Saturday 18 April 2009 6:49

ok guys- yes she made a mistake...that does suck..and the thing that pisses me off is that everyone is saying it's her fault... yes it was..and im sure she knew that..she doesn't need to be reminded of it...the thing that is an fml is that they didn't tell her she was disqualified...sso she just did an insanely long race against a large amount of people...and won..only to find out she had no chance of winning anyway yeah okay... i'm extremely sorry that happened...)= welll like a lot of other people said..you truely won fair and square...and even though you don't have a stupid medal to prove it...everyone knows u were the winner

Musemusic88 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 7:03

#90 ****** A fully grown niglet -Urban Dictionary

misererenobis 0

Saturday 18 April 2009 7:05

Yeah I did that at finals for 2 IM. Won Gold and would've been my Olypmic qualifying time, except I 'false started'. Talked to my coach after and he said he didn't see anything. Stupid officials. It's always about politics. I'm not black, and they wanted someone more 'patriotic' looking to rep their country I guess. So yeah, I know how you're feeling. #71 if it was 4 IM, that is a pretty intense race. anyone who says it's not has CLEARLY never swam it... or trained for it!