Originally posted by valhallan
Seriously,..with the design of today's lane lines, it's very unlikely that a wave could be generated from one lane to the next. But it's possible. This would be a good one for the myth busters.
Now I am confused. Didn't you originally speculate that riding the other swimmer's bow wave gave him an advantage?
As an interesting aside, a swimmer at Men's Pac 10s (Gimbutis) was DQed in the finals of the 200 free for unfairly allowing a teammate to draft off him for the first 100. Gimbutis took out the first 100 very fast, riding right on the lane line, and the other Cal swimmer stayed right at his hip, riding his bow wave. At the 100 Gimbutis shifted into warm down speed. So, apparently the coaches and officials there believe the wave can cross the lane lines otherwise there wouldn't be much rationale to DQ Gimbutis. I think their justification for the DQ was Gimbutis not giving a legitimate effort or some similar wording in the rule book.
Originally posted by valhallan
Seriously,..with the design of today's lane lines, it's very unlikely that a wave could be generated from one lane to the next. But it's possible. This would be a good one for the myth busters.
Now I am confused. Didn't you originally speculate that riding the other swimmer's bow wave gave him an advantage?
As an interesting aside, a swimmer at Men's Pac 10s (Gimbutis) was DQed in the finals of the 200 free for unfairly allowing a teammate to draft off him for the first 100. Gimbutis took out the first 100 very fast, riding right on the lane line, and the other Cal swimmer stayed right at his hip, riding his bow wave. At the 100 Gimbutis shifted into warm down speed. So, apparently the coaches and officials there believe the wave can cross the lane lines otherwise there wouldn't be much rationale to DQ Gimbutis. I think their justification for the DQ was Gimbutis not giving a legitimate effort or some similar wording in the rule book.
