Smaller, IMO. 80% of the swimmers here are from Europe. When Worlds were at Stanford, there were far fewer than here (between 3000 and 4000 I think).
:applaud: That would be a relief! But, from what I have read, Montreal is expecting a lot more swimmers than that:
www.montrealgazette.com/.../story.html
Showed up at the pool at 3pm
Found Nadine and Denise and another usa lady
Sat with them inside for. Oh 2hrs after a warmup
Sat more
More
Way more
Almost missed my event from when they called my name.
Finally swam at 735pm
Bronze in my 1st 800m since 1983
Ran into chris on my way out
Meet a few more usa people
It was raining when i got back to my hotel
The total number of participants is 12600! There are over 100 water polo teams and more than 2300 swimmers join the open water swimming in the sea. To give you an idea of the huge number of participants the following example: 100 m free is swum in a 50 m pool with 10 lanes. And there are 224 series !!. There are ONLY 106 series for women. Men's 400 free 91 series! Mens 50 free? 282 series.
Yes i am 641 in the 800
It is 1:10pm and im still at the hotel on the day i race.
Will go over at about 3pm and see when i actually do race.
They are ready room filling empty lanes as they go.
Consider what warmups will be like monday morning with 560 men in the 200 back. You know all of them will want to practice starts and flags. Never mind the 2200+ for the 100 free
Steve
Showed up at the pool at 3pm
Found Nadine and Denise and another usa lady
Sat with them inside for. Oh 2hrs after a warmup
Sat more
More
Way more
Almost missed my event from when they called my name.
Finally swam at 735pm
Bronze in my 1st 800m since 1983
Nice job. Were you in the same heat as the Ausie & the German?
The total number of participants is 12600! There are over 100 water polo teams and more than 2300 swimmers join the open water swimming in the sea. To give you an idea of the huge number of participants the following example: 100 m free is swum in a 50 m pool with 10 lanes. And there are 224 series !!. There are ONLY 106 series for women. Men's 400 free 91 series! Mens 50 free? 282 series.
Consider what warmups will be like monday morning with 560 men in the 200 back. You know all of them will want to practice starts and flags. Never mind the 2200+ for the 100 free
:afraid: I wonder what it will be like in Montreal, in 2014?
:afraid: I wonder what it will be like in Montreal, in 2014?
Smaller, IMO. 80% of the swimmers here are from Europe. When Worlds were at Stanford, there were far fewer than here (between 3000 and 4000 I think).
An absolutely comical number of swims aren't meeting the cut-off time to be included in the results. No wonder the meet is lasting so long! On the men's side, 50-60 swims in each age group are over the time limit. I guess this is the ugly side of honor system entries.
Playing devil's advocate... Could the reason so many swimmers aren't making their seed times be that the warm-up conditions are so bad? Between not being able to get a proper warm-up and having to wait so long for your heat, I would think that would have a huge effect on most swimmers! :afraid:
Although I am sure there are plenty of people who fudged their seed times, I would guess there are plenty more who missed their times by a small margin, giving my theory some credibility. (I know from my own meet experiences that warm-ups, timing of my heat relative to my warm-up time, and heat/humidity conditions are some of the factors in my race performances.)
Am I allowed to borrow a photo from facebook to put here? It's on Karlyn's facebook....a pic of the warmup pool. I've never seen anything like it. It makes Atlanta seem calm.
I figure as long a I give credit, it's okay. (She set a WR in the 200 back)
From Karlyn Pipes-Neilson's facebook:
"This meet is not a carnival, it's a ZOO. Over 2,200 men warming up and cooling down in a 25-meter, five lane pool. Pure chaos."3459
