False start

For example, both teams need to be in their own half of the field for the start of the game or restarts from goals or half-time and free kicks require players to be a certain distance from the dead ball position.

There is generally no penalty for this type of encroachment, although if the referee considers it to be delaying the restart of the game they can award a yellow card.

One famous example was during the 1974 World Cup when Brazil had a free kick near the Zaire penalty area, but the ball was booted far away by Mwepu Ilunga before the restart.

[6] This rule is only applied at high-level meets where fully automated force or motion sensor devices are built into the starting blocks that are tied via computer with the starter's gun.

A notable example was the 2006 Preakness Stakes when Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro broke through the gate early; he was reloaded and the race was started properly.

The 1993 Grand National was declared void because the recall flag to signal a false start was not unfurled, so that most jockeys continued to race.

In drag racing, if there is a false start, the driver who jumped worse is provisionally disqualified, pending the result of the run (if a worse violation occurs during the race, that offender instead is disqualified, and the false start is nullified, with that offender declared the winner).

Failing to return to start correctly under the P or I Flag rules means the boat is scored O.C.S and receives points equivalent to disqualification.

The sport's governing body, the FIS, prohibits any athlete from moving before the gun sounds or within 0.1 second after, since 2009.

As in track and field, in biathlon or cross country skiing, any false start from any athlete(s) risks immediate disqualification.

A notable example during the 2008 Olympics occurred when Pang Jiaying was disqualified due to a false start.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Chinese swimmer Sun Yang jumped into the water too early in the 1500 m final, but was not judged to have false started because he misunderstood 'stand please' as the start beep by the article 101.1 0.3 D.[12] A similar incident occurred in the women's 100 metre breaststroke final.

One famous example occurred during a musical performance by Elvis Costello during a 1977 television broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

", Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger, "Better Man" by Pearl Jam, "Tangerine" by Led Zeppelin, "Wrong 'Em Boyo" by The Clash, Monkees song "Magnolia Simms", James Blunt's song "You're Beautiful," and "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" by The Smiths are other examples, as well as "I Need A Lover" by John Cougar Mellencamp.