Has the Championship Committee, or other entity within USMS ever discussed having a more strict policy of enforcement in regards to the NQT's?
Why do we state that you must have 3 cuts, in order to swim more events? Why not require a swimmer to have 6 cuts in order to swim 6 events?
Just like to understand more from a historical point of view. I have read post that asked, or suggested how to control the size and length of the National meets. Would not having a stricter enforcement of this policy help? Or would it cause swimmers to shy away from these meets?
Just a curious thought.
Thank you.
Originally posted by Matt S
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Tall Paul, I always suspected you were a closet Royalist! While we're at it, let's restore Louis XVIII (or his great-great-grandson) to the throne of France!
...
Matt "Le Dauphin" Shirley
and
Originally posted by Paul Smith
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Matt, sorry to say that King Louis is out for the French throne, I have it from reliable sources that Ion's in (given that Bucharest has wanted posters of Ion hanging everywhere)! Only problem is France won't take him back becuase he's become so Amercianized, I heard he was even eating a PowerGel at nationals).
...
:D
Bwahaha :) hehe!
From a history book, comes:
"Yet Louis XVIII -old, ugly, and crippled by gout- totally lacked the glory and magic of Napoleon."
in contrast to a more glorious Louis, described a few hundreds of pages before this (and before the era of Louis XVIII -the last Bourbon-) :
"In the reign of Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715), the longest in European history, the French monarchy reached the peak of absolutist development. In the magnificence of his court,..."
When I first met Paul, it was during the 2001 Short Course Nationals in Santa Clara.
Laura was taping a long shadow in the background, in a black, full bodysuit, at the start of the 1000 yards free:
I was passing by, near a pretty blonde leaning on a railing with a camera on hand, and heard her yelling "Go, Pablo!";
I asked myself: "Now, who the heck is Pablo, here?";
I asked the blonde - who introduced herself as being Laura Smith-, and she said is Paul Smith;
doing a first 100 free all-out, for the record in the age group, then warming down for the remaining 900 yards;
"OK, I watch it.", I said since I knew the name of the champion;
47.00 in the first 100 free all-out, then (as I refresh my memory now with that result) relaxing into a 10:51.37 for the 1000 free.
Afterwards, talking with Paul, we touched such groundbreaking subjects as of why this wasn't a 46.99 instead, how he knew my name since I joined two months earlier this forum and was heckled by posters about my bragging of fast times as a late starter, how he went to my native Romania when representing U.S. in the World University Games, and being exposed to many cultures unlike an average poster.
It seemed to me that 'Tall Paul' was not the cyborg I was picturing from seeing the name associated with fast times, but a human.
Like Fritz Lehman -the backstroker- turned out to be also, later on.
The story is to say that this is what you get at the Nationals when you have the excellent, and some other backgrounds too:
an inspiration and an openness;
I doubt the inspiration and the openness would be at the Nationals, if they were restricted to cold business between strict NQT aquanerds.
Originally posted by Matt S
...
Tall Paul, I always suspected you were a closet Royalist! While we're at it, let's restore Louis XVIII (or his great-great-grandson) to the throne of France!
...
Matt "Le Dauphin" Shirley
and
Originally posted by Paul Smith
...
Matt, sorry to say that King Louis is out for the French throne, I have it from reliable sources that Ion's in (given that Bucharest has wanted posters of Ion hanging everywhere)! Only problem is France won't take him back becuase he's become so Amercianized, I heard he was even eating a PowerGel at nationals).
...
:D
Bwahaha :) hehe!
From a history book, comes:
"Yet Louis XVIII -old, ugly, and crippled by gout- totally lacked the glory and magic of Napoleon."
in contrast to a more glorious Louis, described a few hundreds of pages before this (and before the era of Louis XVIII -the last Bourbon-) :
"In the reign of Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715), the longest in European history, the French monarchy reached the peak of absolutist development. In the magnificence of his court,..."
When I first met Paul, it was during the 2001 Short Course Nationals in Santa Clara.
Laura was taping a long shadow in the background, in a black, full bodysuit, at the start of the 1000 yards free:
I was passing by, near a pretty blonde leaning on a railing with a camera on hand, and heard her yelling "Go, Pablo!";
I asked myself: "Now, who the heck is Pablo, here?";
I asked the blonde - who introduced herself as being Laura Smith-, and she said is Paul Smith;
doing a first 100 free all-out, for the record in the age group, then warming down for the remaining 900 yards;
"OK, I watch it.", I said since I knew the name of the champion;
47.00 in the first 100 free all-out, then (as I refresh my memory now with that result) relaxing into a 10:51.37 for the 1000 free.
Afterwards, talking with Paul, we touched such groundbreaking subjects as of why this wasn't a 46.99 instead, how he knew my name since I joined two months earlier this forum and was heckled by posters about my bragging of fast times as a late starter, how he went to my native Romania when representing U.S. in the World University Games, and being exposed to many cultures unlike an average poster.
It seemed to me that 'Tall Paul' was not the cyborg I was picturing from seeing the name associated with fast times, but a human.
Like Fritz Lehman -the backstroker- turned out to be also, later on.
The story is to say that this is what you get at the Nationals when you have the excellent, and some other backgrounds too:
an inspiration and an openness;
I doubt the inspiration and the openness would be at the Nationals, if they were restricted to cold business between strict NQT aquanerds.
