race disputes

RE: race disputes

orca1946 — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 07:33:16 GMT

Good news for you ---- and ---- congrats on the National Q time !!!

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imbacktoit — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 06:03:53 GMT

Just got meet results on this website & my 100 back time has been revised & now makes sense. Even better, I have another Nat'ls qualifying time! thanks to everyone who responded.

RE: race disputes

orca1946 — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:23:55 GMT

go ask the backup timers what the times were as to the posted time. In any case unless you are going for a "Q " time for state or Nationals you will have other times to compare this to. Yes - back stroke can be hard to get to the pad on the finish, I suspect this might be the case.

RE: race disputes

m2tall2 — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:14:34 GMT

When comparing the times for official results, any time more than a certain amount off (can't recall exactly but my memory tells me 0.6 seconds), that outlier is dropped. The board results are not official. The meet I ran recently had a lot of swimmers who typically don't race and there were a good handful of soft touches. Also a few swimmers who do race were getting soft touches because our gutter system screams "touch me", so they hit the top instead of side of the pad. There's actually a check box right on the timer's sheet printed from Meet Manager to designate a "soft touch", so the people compiling results make sure they give it special attention when they look at the times. I was part of a relay in December where our third swimmer kicked the wall on the way out of the pool and that incorrect time still showed when results were posted online because they were the timing system report, not the official results. Sometime later that week, official results were posted and it had our correct time from the watch. I wouldn't stress it unless you super needed that time for something. Then you can see if the meet manager can check the back-up systems to see if the times jive.

RE: race disputes

Former Member — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:04:51 GMT

RE: race disputes

Dan Kornblatt — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 08:05:35 GMT

It's possible that the electronic time was not correct. I suggest you contact the meet director and tell him that you think the time listed in the results for your 100 backstroke swim may not be correct. Ask him if he could look at the backup timers' sheets from your lane, to verify that the backup timers recorded times similar to what was detected by the electronic timing system. If the backup times are significantly different, that will tell him whether there was an error in the electronic timing system. This happens often in the backstroke. I addition to gliding in on the touch you might have also veered to the side and possibly hit the gutter wall first than the pad when turning around to face the wall. Either way both the back up button and back up hand timers would only be a few tenths at most behind the computer timing.

RE: race disputes

Debugger — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:50:31 GMT

Never heard of anyone disputing results. Usually DQ is the case for dispute. In case of dispute you should not argue with meet officials - usually meet invitation describes the official disputing procedure. Furthermore, usually it's not for free, so if you dispute anything you'd better have some evidences like video of your distance.