I go back to something I brought up before Worlds at Stanford, FINA should change the rules and allow us to represent our countries vs. swim at the club level for an event like Worlds.
I've brought this up with the Swedish Swimming association after I found out Sweden was going to host the 2010 worlds.
Sweden has a fairly small Masters program. At our Nationals we had roughly 1370 starts for 30 events (including 6 relays). The event with the most starts was mens 50m free at 175, least starts womens 800m, only 8. An average of 45 starts per event.
Right now, my team is only has 4 competing masters swimmers and one of them refuses to swim anything but breastroke at meets, so no free relay for the rest of us.
I go back to something I brought up before Worlds at Stanford, FINA should change the rules and allow us to represent our countries vs. swim at the club level for an event like Worlds.
I've brought this up with the Swedish Swimming association after I found out Sweden was going to host the 2010 worlds.
Sweden has a fairly small Masters program. At our Nationals we had roughly 1370 starts for 30 events (including 6 relays). The event with the most starts was mens 50m free at 175, least starts womens 800m, only 8. An average of 45 starts per event.
Right now, my team is only has 4 competing masters swimmers and one of them refuses to swim anything but breastroke at meets, so no free relay for the rest of us.
