Really silly inquiry regarding the barrier in a 50m pool.
Former Member
Please forgive me for this, but my OCD brain needs to know:
When they put that barrier in the 50m pool to make 2x25m pools, how can you be left with 25m if the barrier is at least 1m wide?
(This matters to me, sorry.) :)
I don't remember the margin for too long, but I believe the margin for too short is .0000 (basically none.) I personally think USMS policy should be revisited. Entire meet results are thrown out over 1 cm. Jim's calculations are easy to do. Keep "zero tolerance" for WRs and NRs, but use the "fudge factor"(the caculated difference in times, maybe plus.02 sec/per length to be sure) to allow the times to count for TT.
I don't remember the margin for too long, but I believe the margin for too short is .0000 (basically none.) I personally think USMS policy should be revisited. Entire meet results are thrown out over 1 cm. Jim's calculations are easy to do. Keep "zero tolerance" for WRs and NRs, but use the "fudge factor"(the caculated difference in times, maybe plus.02 sec/per length to be sure) to allow the times to count for TT.
