Michael Phelps said he is looking to swim some new events, but is being very secrative about it. Anyone want to throw out a guess as to what those events are? I would consider the following "his" events: 200 free, 200 IM, 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 fly, 200 back, and maybe the 100 free.
My guess is the 400 free and maybe the 50 free or 100 back. I can't see him becoming a breaststroker. So that leaves the shorter back race and free.
Anyone else?
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Originally posted by Frank Thompson
Don't we have a rule that states if someone has a seed time slower than the historical swim that the Meet Director can put that individual in a faster heat. Isn't that what they call the no sand bag rule.
We had a similar issue come up in New England a couple of years ago. We concluded that the meet director does have the discretion to change a seed time if it appears grossly incorrect and would result in a non-competitive heat. The situation was that some very fast swimmers put in very slow seed times to have more rest between events. We utlimately decided that since we didn't include this provisio in our meet literature we wouldn't enforce that year. That is now standard language in our official championship meet information.
Most seed times in USA swimming are taken from the swimmers database and usually are based on lifetime best times. I wonder if Phelps times are mistakes, not unusual, and will be corrected before the official pysche sheet is published (usually several days before the competition begins, that is, early next week).
BTW, for those interested you can still enter the 2005 NE SCY Championship, albeit with payment of a $16 late fee. This meet will feature 700+ swimmers and based on some of the seed times will also feature some very fast swimming. Expect a real mano-to-mano showdown between Mike Ross and Jim Harvey in the 35-39 age group...51 high for a 100 IM anyone?
Originally posted by Frank Thompson
Don't we have a rule that states if someone has a seed time slower than the historical swim that the Meet Director can put that individual in a faster heat. Isn't that what they call the no sand bag rule.
We had a similar issue come up in New England a couple of years ago. We concluded that the meet director does have the discretion to change a seed time if it appears grossly incorrect and would result in a non-competitive heat. The situation was that some very fast swimmers put in very slow seed times to have more rest between events. We utlimately decided that since we didn't include this provisio in our meet literature we wouldn't enforce that year. That is now standard language in our official championship meet information.
Most seed times in USA swimming are taken from the swimmers database and usually are based on lifetime best times. I wonder if Phelps times are mistakes, not unusual, and will be corrected before the official pysche sheet is published (usually several days before the competition begins, that is, early next week).
BTW, for those interested you can still enter the 2005 NE SCY Championship, albeit with payment of a $16 late fee. This meet will feature 700+ swimmers and based on some of the seed times will also feature some very fast swimming. Expect a real mano-to-mano showdown between Mike Ross and Jim Harvey in the 35-39 age group...51 high for a 100 IM anyone?
