When masters swimmers break national or world records, require drug testing in order for those records to count & stand.
It's not clear to me how this would work. Consider an admittedly extreme case. Suppose Phil Dodson's 95+ yo mom sets a new national record for the 50 free at YMCA nats. Is someone going hop on a plane to Sarasota and get a urine sample from her? Would someone go to Y nats just in case a national record is broken? Or would USMS (or some other organization) contract with a local lab? What's the maximum time after a swim during which a sample could be collected?
More generally, most LMSCs host quite a few swim meets each year. As long as the meet is sanctioned and the pool measures correctly for record-setting purposes, national records could potentially be set at any of those meets. Based on the relatively small number of records broken each year, it would seem to be a small cost, but covering all the potential meets, just in case, could get expensive.
Finally, if USMS sets up to collect samples at a meet (just in case), and no national records are broken, do we call that a "false positive?" ;)
When masters swimmers break national or world records, require drug testing in order for those records to count & stand.
It's not clear to me how this would work. Consider an admittedly extreme case. Suppose Phil Dodson's 95+ yo mom sets a new national record for the 50 free at YMCA nats. Is someone going hop on a plane to Sarasota and get a urine sample from her? Would someone go to Y nats just in case a national record is broken? Or would USMS (or some other organization) contract with a local lab? What's the maximum time after a swim during which a sample could be collected?
More generally, most LMSCs host quite a few swim meets each year. As long as the meet is sanctioned and the pool measures correctly for record-setting purposes, national records could potentially be set at any of those meets. Based on the relatively small number of records broken each year, it would seem to be a small cost, but covering all the potential meets, just in case, could get expensive.
Finally, if USMS sets up to collect samples at a meet (just in case), and no national records are broken, do we call that a "false positive?" ;)
