Section 7: Violations & Penalties

Any athlete who commits a false start is given a warning (Yellow Card). The first false start per race is charged to the field collectively; thereafter, any individual false start results in disqualification of that athlete.

Source: Rule 16, Rule 14, Rule 17, Rule 25, Rule 7, Rule 7.7, Rule 24, Rule 12

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