I am going to get HELL from all you guys here for saying this but hey, I have to keep it real and won't sway my opinion just because it is not getbig approved.
Now should he have been disqualified? I say yes and I will tell you why. The amount of pressure in the last 5-6 days from the show is insane, your body is on it's last life line and getting up to take a piss is a fucken headache. To hold everything together is near impossible if you are going here, going there, doing this and that. basically if you have 100 things to do in the last week come show time you will look like shit cause your body is on fumes and will burn.
The proper precedure is to focus, rest and pay attention to detail and hang in there.
Now these athletes meetings are a 3-4 hour ordeal and people are zombies and walking corpse, as I said before I work at shows a dozen times a year and I attend athletes meetings every show and they are tired exausted, dying to get back to there hotel and rest, just hours before their show, the last thing they want to do is hang out at an athletes meeting.
So the bottom line is if he skips it and is allowed to compete, it poses the question? maybe he was resting in his hotel and will be fresh for battle, obviously this was not the case but the fact that the other athletes will be upset for him being able to compete after neglecting a rule will make them feel it was not fair, after all we know he would be taking food off of their table if he competes.
