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.
vanity aging. That's when (usually middle-aged) swimmers enter a younger age than their actual years..
Never really understood this. Seems to me it's just setting yourself up for people saying "wow, he/she looks a lot older than that!"
But back to statute of limitations on TT times. You know, I think most people are responding to the poll with Jim's situation in mind, but there are other things that can happen. For example, I swam at SPMA LC championships a few years ago and the scoreboard said I went a 4:27 in my 400 free. I knew I was really more like 4:34 based on the times of a couple other swimmers I was right with. The backup timers screwed up and just wrote down exactly what the readout board said, so that didn't help. If I hadn't said anything about it I'm absolutely sure that time would have stood unless someone else complained and even then what could they do? The electronic timing had me down at 4:27. What they ended up doing is throwing that time out and letting me swim it again at the end of the day.
What if someone found out, after the results were official, that someone used paddles to swim the One Hour Postal? Would you want that result to stand just because the results were already official? There are all kinds of possible scenarios. I think the only fair thing to do is throw out any times that are known to not comply with USMS rules when the swim took place.
vanity aging. That's when (usually middle-aged) swimmers enter a younger age than their actual years..
Never really understood this. Seems to me it's just setting yourself up for people saying "wow, he/she looks a lot older than that!"
But back to statute of limitations on TT times. You know, I think most people are responding to the poll with Jim's situation in mind, but there are other things that can happen. For example, I swam at SPMA LC championships a few years ago and the scoreboard said I went a 4:27 in my 400 free. I knew I was really more like 4:34 based on the times of a couple other swimmers I was right with. The backup timers screwed up and just wrote down exactly what the readout board said, so that didn't help. If I hadn't said anything about it I'm absolutely sure that time would have stood unless someone else complained and even then what could they do? The electronic timing had me down at 4:27. What they ended up doing is throwing that time out and letting me swim it again at the end of the day.
What if someone found out, after the results were official, that someone used paddles to swim the One Hour Postal? Would you want that result to stand just because the results were already official? There are all kinds of possible scenarios. I think the only fair thing to do is throw out any times that are known to not comply with USMS rules when the swim took place.
