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.
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.
Jim you may appreciate this: there is a flip side to this phenomenon and possibly it is more common (Anna Lea can say for sure): vanity aging. That's when (usually middle-aged) swimmers enter a younger age than their actual years.
It puts them at a competitive disadvantage with respect to swimming achievements but perhaps they are interested in something other than TT rankings...
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.
Jim you may appreciate this: there is a flip side to this phenomenon and possibly it is more common (Anna Lea can say for sure): vanity aging. That's when (usually middle-aged) swimmers enter a younger age than their actual years.
It puts them at a competitive disadvantage with respect to swimming achievements but perhaps they are interested in something other than TT rankings...
