Looking ahead to 2012, they have posters here in Sweden about the next FINA Masters to be held in Riccione, Italy. I went there when they held it in 2004 and had a great time. The dates are June 2-16, 2012.
There are quite a few very fast swimmers out there who rarely, if ever, swim in meets (that's true in the US as well). With 8000+ swimmers, I wouldn't be surprised at all for relative unknowns to pull down some very fast times.
If so, check the world Top Tens for 2010, the last time there was a world championship. Were they noticeably faster than 2009 & 2011?
Since 2010 was when the new suit rules went into effect, that factor would dominate. And for several years prior to thatbi think the suits were getting noticeably better each year.
chris,
dont be shocked if somebody is entered ahead of your WR in the 200 back.
LOTS of fake times!!!!
where is the validity checking on these? totally stunned by the number of fake entry times!!!
Maybe people are entering lifetime bests instead of masters bests? Or best times from a previous age group?
Check against the All Time Top Ten for each age group here:
www.fina.org/.../tabs_LC_all.pdf
Or search by year on this page: www.fina.org/.../index.php
ok the fina all time top 10 list just proved it.
4 guys with entry times faster than the all time top 10.
F A K E!!!
Not sure it really matters. Not sure how excited I am about people editing my times (nor do volunteers want to go through all that garbage of checking entries). I just enter times I think I will swim and usually I'm not too far off. If the people that enter fast times are way off, I assume they will feel ashamed but maybe not....Europeans tend to still wear tiny speedos well into their 50s and 60s and seem not too concerned that their bodies are way past putting everybody through that kind of visual trauma.:)
There are quite a few very fast swimmers out there who rarely, if ever, swim in meets (that's true in the US as well). With 8000+ swimmers, I wouldn't be surprised at all for relative unknowns to pull down some very fast times.
If so, check the world Top Tens for 2010, the last time there was a world championship. Were they noticeably faster than 2009 & 2011?
Has anyone heard if the earthquake in Italy has hit Riccione? The center only looks 80 miles away.
no damage in Riccione
everything is fine
news for OW swimmers
Due to the huge number of participants at the Open Water event, the FINA Master Committee and the O.C. decided, for safety reasons, to split the race in two days, saturday 16th and sunday 17th june.
On saturday the 16th june age groups 40, 35, 30 and 25 men and women will start, on sunday the others age groups 85, 80, 75, 70, 65, 60, 55, 50 and 45 men and women.
The swimmers involved in the Open Water and 400m Free on saturday could be able to swim in both events.
The swimmers who will not able to participate at the 3k for logistic and organizative reasons would have to inform the OC within the 27th may at the email address ow.refund.wmc2012@federnuoto.it in order to be refunded.
