| Under pressure from animal rights activists seeking to disrupt the race he raised the tape, but a technical failure led to a clear false start. |
| Begin reading at the wrong base and the whole message will be gobbledegook which could easily include false start and stop signals. |
| Thorpe has been robbed of a chance to defend his 400m freestyle title in Athens after being disqualified for a false start. |
| A fiasco involving the starting tape led to a false start being called but most of the field were oblivious and carried on. |
| Friday was a bit of a false start as the contractions, if that is indeed what they were died away on Saturday. |
| I'm trying to focus and not to false start, fall at the line or basically walk instead of run out of the blocks as I sometimes do because any of these things could happen. |
