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.
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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.
The problem I have always had with the "slippery slope" argument is that the examples cited are often not analogous. Jim didn't use paddles, or a tow rope, or even a motor. He entered a USMS-sanctioned meet, he didn't false start, and he wasn't disqualified. The truly fair thing to do would have been to allow the official results to stand.
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.
The problem I have always had with the "slippery slope" argument is that the examples cited are often not analogous. Jim didn't use paddles, or a tow rope, or even a motor. He entered a USMS-sanctioned meet, he didn't false start, and he wasn't disqualified. The truly fair thing to do would have been to allow the official results to stand.
