The FINA Bureau approved the dates, the schedule of events and the qualifying times for the XI FINA Masters Championships that will be held at the Avery Aquatic Center, Stanford University, Stanford California - August 4 - 17, 2006
Qualifying Times
The qualifying times are now posted. These times are easier than the USMS Long course times, however, remember if you do not swim at or faster than the qualify time you will receive "no time" for your effort - your swim will not count.
Schedule of Events
The schedule of events is up. The swimming portion will take place August 4th through 10th; and will include a day of relays. The open water swim will be on August 11th. There are also schedules for the other aquatic disciplines.
Hotel Rooms
The organizing committee has been working with a destination management company to get hotels at a good rate for swimmers. Those rates are only available if you book through the Internet portal that has been set up that has been set up or if you call the toll free number. Once to the home page of the hotel registration select your stay dates and number of guests in the room first then you will get a list of available hotels.(Also the Internet portal works best with IE 5.01 and IE 6.0+) .
Web Site
All of the above information can be found at the XI FINA World Masters Championship web site - www.2006FINAMasters.org .
Vacation destination
San Francisco and northern California is one of the premeire tourist destinations in the world. Besides the great swimming venue, there will be many day trips scheduled for you or your significant other (or children). This will be a great time to plan a vacation to the golden state.
The Organizing Committee is working on days trips and discounted airfares. Announcements will be made as the plans are made final.
michael
Michael W. Moore, president
XI FINA World Masters Championships - 2006
Stanford Unversity
Stanford California
Very well stated argument, Phil. I take issue with only one point.
The whole point of swimming competition is to race the clock. Other people in the water make it exciting sometimes, but time is the real goal, otherwise we wouldn't use watches.
This entire argument is a tempest in a teacup, unless the rest of the country is rife with sandbaggers. Even in our local championships (250-500 swimmers), I have rarely seen more than one or two probable sandbaggers shooting ahead of their heats. And never the same people from year to year.
I understand the argument about the timeline affect, but it is likely less than the affect of a false start, which is also not cheating but does happen on occasion.
What would you call an entire heat of sandbaggers? How about heat one?
Very well stated argument, Phil. I take issue with only one point.
The whole point of swimming competition is to race the clock. Other people in the water make it exciting sometimes, but time is the real goal, otherwise we wouldn't use watches.
This entire argument is a tempest in a teacup, unless the rest of the country is rife with sandbaggers. Even in our local championships (250-500 swimmers), I have rarely seen more than one or two probable sandbaggers shooting ahead of their heats. And never the same people from year to year.
I understand the argument about the timeline affect, but it is likely less than the affect of a false start, which is also not cheating but does happen on occasion.
What would you call an entire heat of sandbaggers? How about heat one?
