This thread is in response to Jim Thorton's thread about his AA time being disallowed.I think that if a swimmer swims in a USMS sanctioned meet and that the time gets to the "official" Top Ten list that it should count.Otherwise one could go back and check the length of ,say the Amarillo pool from the first Masters Nationals and if it was 1 cm short disallow the swims.There must be a statute of limitations and I think it should be when the official TT times are posted.
I just discovered this thread and want to thank Allen and all the kind posters! From what I have heard through the rumor mill, USMS has recently discovered a number of cases where people have changed their ages so as to do better in the TT rankings. This became possible after collating all the TT in a single data base, which made it easy to determine that if swimmer X, who made the TT at age, say, 27, makes it again 30 years later at age 60, something fishy is going on. In cases of outright fraud, I do think the malefactor should have his or her time yanked, though a person pathetic enough to do this probably is being punished by life already. Perhaps a better solution to TT horror stories is for USMS to withhold its sanction until a potential meet director submits everything necessary before he/she can even post the meet info. Check my modest proposal out on the other thread. And thanks, sincerely, to everyone for your kindness!
I just discovered this thread and want to thank Allen and all the kind posters! From what I have heard through the rumor mill, USMS has recently discovered a number of cases where people have changed their ages so as to do better in the TT rankings. This became possible after collating all the TT in a single data base, which made it easy to determine that if swimmer X, who made the TT at age, say, 27, makes it again 30 years later at age 60, something fishy is going on. In cases of outright fraud, I do think the malefactor should have his or her time yanked, though a person pathetic enough to do this probably is being punished by life already. Perhaps a better solution to TT horror stories is for USMS to withhold its sanction until a potential meet director submits everything necessary before he/she can even post the meet info. Check my modest proposal out on the other thread. And thanks, sincerely, to everyone for your kindness!
