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.
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!"I've seen a master's coach get pretty worked up over losing an IM relay and rearrange his swimmers to ensure he won the free relay in that age group the next day (perfectly legitimate). Meet points seem to matter a lot to some people... nothing wrong with that. I suppose it's possible a misguided swimmer could take it a step further and sign up for a different age group knowing that it is less populated and thus provides a better chance for winning a race.
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!"I've seen a master's coach get pretty worked up over losing an IM relay and rearrange his swimmers to ensure he won the free relay in that age group the next day (perfectly legitimate). Meet points seem to matter a lot to some people... nothing wrong with that. I suppose it's possible a misguided swimmer could take it a step further and sign up for a different age group knowing that it is less populated and thus provides a better chance for winning a race.
