www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../33152.asp
Article written by P. Whitten.
I did not know that USMS does not belong to USADA. Rumor mill speculates that a percentage (small? large?) of masters records (FINA, USMS) were set by athletes on performance enhancing drugs (PEDs).
Who cares? Masters swimming is a ridiculous charade anyway. Techsuits, anyone? Until they're banned by USMS everything's a farce. Sorry I was wrong - I've been under a rock for 3 years since I gave up going to meets because I can't stand triathletes bragging about 8 minute 500s.
It was supposed to be a way for people older than college to get together, swim and compete against each other in a relaxed and fun environment. Anyone serious about their ambitions is swimming with a club or combo team with the senior/elite swimmers. Anyone else with delusions of grandeur is simply taking it too damn seriously.
Practice hard, race "fast", and have fun. Like any other organized adult sport, you add rules, records, regulations, doping controls, and it becomes one gigantic pissing contest - literally and figuratively. Who cares if Lance goes to a Masters meet? I certainly don't.
P.S. His presence is probably "unwelcome" by some because of personality, not because he's a disgraced PED user.
This guy sounds like another disenfranchised breaststroker (as all breaststrokers are)...probably swam some rec. league growing up and failed in his attempted comeback in this "charade" of a sport by getting his ass kicked by a triathlete.
Who cares? Masters swimming is a ridiculous charade anyway. Techsuits, anyone? Until they're banned by USMS everything's a farce. Sorry I was wrong - I've been under a rock for 3 years since I gave up going to meets because I can't stand triathletes bragging about 8 minute 500s.
It was supposed to be a way for people older than college to get together, swim and compete against each other in a relaxed and fun environment. Anyone serious about their ambitions is swimming with a club or combo team with the senior/elite swimmers. Anyone else with delusions of grandeur is simply taking it too damn seriously.
Practice hard, race "fast", and have fun. Like any other organized adult sport, you add rules, records, regulations, doping controls, and it becomes one gigantic pissing contest - literally and figuratively. Who cares if Lance goes to a Masters meet? I certainly don't.
P.S. His presence is probably "unwelcome" by some because of personality, not because he's a disgraced PED user.
This guy sounds like another disenfranchised breaststroker (as all breaststrokers are)...probably swam some rec. league growing up and failed in his attempted comeback in this "charade" of a sport by getting his ass kicked by a triathlete.
