2014 Nathan Adrian's 41.13 100 Freestyle

It doesn't make any sense to me, and speaking to timing system operators (at both USS and USMS meets), a 20 second delay is definitely excessive. As a timing system operator, 20 seconds is NOT excessive for most meets. Typically I set the arm delay for 20 seconds and at any given meet with dive-over starts I will have 1 or 2 touches that need to be subtracted for slow exiting swimmers and 0 touches that need to be added. However, I do cut the arm delay down to 18 seconds(or 8 seconds on 25s) if it looks like anyone will get near 20 seconds for a touch. timing policies by USMS I don’t believe USMS has a timing policy, but I bet our Championship Committee will now be looking into one. 1) how do you get a 19.74 split if the pad doesnt arm till 20.00 ? there should be no split time! 2) how do you get a 21.39 split if the pad wasn’t armed for the 1st split? you wouldn’t know the last 50 split because there was no 1st 50 split!I wasn’t at the event, so I’m not sure what timing equipment was used, but some timing equipment maintains a database of touches that can be interrogated. So even if the pad is not armed the database records all touches and the timing operator can after the fact go back and accept a touch. 3) if the pad wasnt armed for his 1st split, why did that impact his finish time when it would never have had a 20sec disarm since he was already gone at the 20sec from the start? 4) the only valid time should be the 41.08 that "somehow" got changed to 41.13 because of some 20secs that he was not even on the pad to activate! I have no idea what you are asking in question 3, but as for 4 – as I understand it the 41.13 was the pad time, it was just recorded as the 50 instead of the 100. The 41.08 was a button time. And as per 103.17.3 Determination of Official Time the the pad time shall be the official time.

It doesn't make any sense to me, and speaking to timing system operators (at both USS and USMS meets), a 20 second delay is definitely excessive. As a timing system operator, 20 seconds is NOT excessive for most meets. Typically I set the arm delay for 20 seconds and at any given meet with dive-over starts I will have 1 or 2 touches that need to be subtracted for slow exiting swimmers and 0 touches that need to be added. However, I do cut the arm delay down to 18 seconds(or 8 seconds on 25s) if it looks like anyone will get near 20 seconds for a touch. timing policies by USMS I don’t believe USMS has a timing policy, but I bet our Championship Committee will now be looking into one. 1) how do you get a 19.74 split if the pad doesnt arm till 20.00 ? there should be no split time! 2) how do you get a 21.39 split if the pad wasn’t armed for the 1st split? you wouldn’t know the last 50 split because there was no 1st 50 split!I wasn’t at the event, so I’m not sure what timing equipment was used, but some timing equipment maintains a database of touches that can be interrogated. So even if the pad is not armed the database records all touches and the timing operator can after the fact go back and accept a touch. 3) if the pad wasnt armed for his 1st split, why did that impact his finish time when it would never have had a 20sec disarm since he was already gone at the 20sec from the start? 4) the only valid time should be the 41.08 that "somehow" got changed to 41.13 because of some 20secs that he was not even on the pad to activate! I have no idea what you are asking in question 3, but as for 4 – as I understand it the 41.13 was the pad time, it was just recorded as the 50 instead of the 100. The 41.08 was a button time. And as per 103.17.3 Determination of Official Time the the pad time shall be the official time.