In the Nationals Forum their has been discussion about the decision to swim 200s at Nats by time only and not by age groups. forums.usms.org/showthread.php .Here is your chance to register your opinion for future reference.
1st - i agree!!! but notice it is never the 50 free that gets pulled out. the distance people always get screwed. basically what this comes down to is that...because your race takes longer it is not of the same "caliber level" as the 50free. they (the championship group) basically is saying that because your race takes so much time, we wont allow you to win a national championship. yes, you could pick the 1500 as event #1 and 800 as event #2 and 50 as event #6, but if they dont allow you to enter both the 1500 and 800
The 50 free would get "pulled out" if it were your 6th event.
This is pretty whiney. There are already loads of freestyle events. Would you rather that the distance specialists take over whatever time is allotted for nationals? We could just have long distance nationals? Swimmers don't even swim both the 800 and 1500 at the Olympics. And you can still get an AA in the event if you swim it at Zones or another meet. No one gets to swim every event they want at nationals.
As Chris notes, sometimes logic and efficiency have to trump "nice in theory" at a national level event.
1st - i agree!!! but notice it is never the 50 free that gets pulled out. the distance people always get screwed. basically what this comes down to is that...because your race takes longer it is not of the same "caliber level" as the 50free. they (the championship group) basically is saying that because your race takes so much time, we wont allow you to win a national championship. yes, you could pick the 1500 as event #1 and 800 as event #2 and 50 as event #6, but if they dont allow you to enter both the 1500 and 800
The 50 free would get "pulled out" if it were your 6th event.
This is pretty whiney. There are already loads of freestyle events. Would you rather that the distance specialists take over whatever time is allotted for nationals? We could just have long distance nationals? Swimmers don't even swim both the 800 and 1500 at the Olympics. And you can still get an AA in the event if you swim it at Zones or another meet. No one gets to swim every event they want at nationals.
As Chris notes, sometimes logic and efficiency have to trump "nice in theory" at a national level event.
