[HN Gopher] Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with...
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       Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-10-31 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | QuadmasterXLII wrote:
       | Of all the forms of immortality, my favorite is participating in
       | a competition in such a brilliant, incorrect way that a rule is
       | permanently added just for you.
        
         | zardo wrote:
         | I'm surprised they don't just DQ him under an intentionally
         | vague rule on reckless maneuvers.
        
         | QuadmasterXLII wrote:
         | Or of course this could become the new meta, which from a
         | viewer perspective might be even better
        
         | Someone wrote:
         | It's not likely that will make you immortal. Being forbidden,
         | your technique will not be used, so your name won't be
         | mentioned, and it will be forgotten (You might get famous if
         | your technique keeps getting used by accident)
         | 
         | For example, there's "Felix Erausquin", who invented a javelin
         | throwing technique you probably never heard of.
         | 
         | http://rethinkingathletics.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-
         | javelin-...:
         | 
         |  _However the true revolution of javelin throw came in 1956
         | when a 49 year old spaniard, Felix Erausquin, invented what
         | came to be called the "spanish style". Erausquin was a
         | specialist of shot put and discus throw (with several national
         | titles and records) but also of the "barra vasca" which
         | consists in throwing a heavy rod using a rotational technique.
         | Erausquin adapted the style of the barra to javelin throw with
         | a greased hand and managed a throw of 83.40 m at a few
         | centimetres of the world record.
         | 
         | [...]
         | 
         | Could the spaniards have won the 1956 Olympic javelin title?
         | Yes and no. Had they kept the style secret till Melbourne they
         | would certainly have taken the javelin world by surprise.
         | However at the beginning of October, a month and a half before
         | the Games, Salcedo used the new style during a competition in
         | Paris. This opened the way for experimentation with the new
         | technique to non-spanish athletes but also alerted the
         | instances of the international federation who by the end of the
         | month had modified the rules so as to ban the rotational
         | technique. However, even if they had kept the secret, the
         | athletes from Spain would not have had the occasion to throw at
         | Melbourne since Franco's government had, at the last moment,
         | decided to boycott the Games._
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | We used to call it "wall speed". "Wall speed ahead!"
        
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