The no touching role came in partly as a result of coaches holding up athletes who had LMC or black out The no touching role came in partly as a result of coaches holding up athletes who had LMC or black out ...
Still, as earlier proposed, a yellow card with a 5 or 10 pt deduction would be more fair solution than the red card and would still prevent coaches from wanting to help/touch their athlete. The rule should be there (atleast when surfacing in STA) to ensure that the coach or someone else don´t interfere one way or another.
Also in case of a suspected PBMM the athlete would be given a 5 or 10 pt sanction. This would, ofcourse, cause disputes in some cases (as is the case today also) but would be much fairer to the athlete and give the judge an alternative. It would also invalid NR or WR dives (as it should if there´s a question about validity).
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