2014 Nathan Adrian's 41.13 100 Freestyle

I stopped in at practice yesterday to chat with my coach about how my meet went and told him about this. He said a similar thing happened at the Washington High School State meet a few years ago. Sean Sussex (some of you might know his dad, Steve) went under 20 seconds leading off the relay, but his split wasn't recorded because of the 20 second arming delay. He was the first Washington high schooler to swim a sub 20 second 50 and it didn't count because of this. Oops. I am confused here. Shouldn't this have happened to every swimmer that went under 20 seconds? Anthony Ervin went 19.33 in an earlier heat so why didn't he have this same problem. William Copeland and Christopher Peterson also went under 20 seconds just barely so they should have the same problem to. I believe the arming delay was discovered after the event was over judging by how the results were changed for Nathan Adrian. So with these facts I am confused why there was not a timing difference in the other swimmers.

I stopped in at practice yesterday to chat with my coach about how my meet went and told him about this. He said a similar thing happened at the Washington High School State meet a few years ago. Sean Sussex (some of you might know his dad, Steve) went under 20 seconds leading off the relay, but his split wasn't recorded because of the 20 second arming delay. He was the first Washington high schooler to swim a sub 20 second 50 and it didn't count because of this. Oops. I am confused here. Shouldn't this have happened to every swimmer that went under 20 seconds? Anthony Ervin went 19.33 in an earlier heat so why didn't he have this same problem. William Copeland and Christopher Peterson also went under 20 seconds just barely so they should have the same problem to. I believe the arming delay was discovered after the event was over judging by how the results were changed for Nathan Adrian. So with these facts I am confused why there was not a timing difference in the other swimmers.