2014 Worlds

There are nine pictures. Click on the bottom left one to see an aerial view of the complex.

I was so concerned about the venue for swimming at 2014 Worlds that I sent an email to the CEO, Pierre Cloutier. He responded very quickly with the following: We are in the process of negotiating for 2 10 lane 50m to be installed at Parc Jean Drapeau. This is our 1st option. We will consider other options if this doesn’t materialize but we will not compete in only 1 pool for you and for us. It makes it long for swimmers but extra long for organizers and I’m not interested to be there till midnight every day. Keep checking our website or our Facebook for updates. Thanks for passing the word around. People that came to see our booth in Italy were told about the other pools. It’s a question of weeks before it’s officially finalized. Have a great day. Pierre

pwb, then you just do the first 3 days or the last 3 days. Go down to College Park for the 1500!

i hope they get 2 pools!!!

I was so concerned about the venue for swimming at 2014 Worlds that I sent an email to the CEO, Pierre Cloutier. He responded very quickly with the following: We are in the process of negotiating for 2 10 lane 50m to be installed at Parc Jean Drapeau. This is our 1st option. We will consider other options if this doesn’t materialize but we will not compete in only 1 pool for you and for us. It makes it long for swimmers but extra long for organizers and I’m not interested to be there till midnight every day. Keep checking our website or our Facebook for updates. Thanks for passing the word around. People that came to see our booth in Italy were told about the other pools. It’s a question of weeks before it’s officially finalized. Have a great day. PierreThis is great news. It looks from the aerial shots like there's a fair amount of green space around the complex to put another pool. My daughter's up there this week competing at their Canada Cup meet, so I hope to get her full report on the pool and the facilities in general. My wife confirmed the metro stop drops you right at the pool and a weekly unlimited pass was like $42, so that opens up a lot of Montreal from a lodging perspective.

Someone just asked me about using yards times to qualify for Worlds. The meet information says to add 2% to your short course meters time to get a long course meters time but doesn't mention using yards times (probably because this is the only country in the world that swims yards). Does anyone in-the-know have any info about qualifying using a yards time?

Does anyone in-the-know have any info about qualifying using a yards time?I'd suggest you reach out to the organizers directly. I would think they'd want to have their closest proximity neighbors attend and, if they offer an SCM->LCM conversion factor, they can create an SCY->LCM factor. Alternately, find a meet this fall in SCM and get the times there!

I didn't think you needed qualifying cut times for Worlds.

finamasters2014.org/discipline.aspx If you can't access the link above, the Worlds website says you can convert your short course times to long course by adding 2%. They are talking about SCM times converted to LCM times. However, the qualifying times are very generous, so there isn't much to worry about there. And, you can just estimate your time LCM time with one of the conversion tools, or just add 9 seconds for a 100 and 18 for a 200.

I didn't think you needed qualifying cut times for Worlds. Essentially you don't. If you miss the time standard your time won't show up in the results for that event. It's almost like you never swam the event even though you did. I forget now whether your seed time needs to be under the qualifying standard or not. If you don't have any metric swims I'd suggest using an online converter like the one at Swimming World: www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../conversions.asp