Rumor has it that some teams were recruiting outside there LMSC for swimmers at nationals. What do you think of this.
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The clostest I will ever come to world records is filing the applications when they are broken at meets that I direct. That being said, I think it would be a lot more fun to represent my country at an international meet than the local group I swim with. True, if the FINA rule were to one day change to allow swimmers to represent their countries in international competition, relay records would get faster. But, is that necessarily a bad thing? I find it quite inspiring to see a quartet of swimmers go faster than any their age have ever before. Other than the fact I am not that much farther from being on a record setting relay, would it be bad for adult swimming around the world if records got faster?
I can see why people will get up set with recruiting faster swimmer to join their team for this purpose, but if we didn't have to leave our local teams to swim together internationally, would the same objections still stand?
Changing a FINA rule is not going to happen overnight and most likely will not be initiated by the US. Still, we do have a representative to FINA in Nancy Ridout. If anyone can build the coalition needed to pass something like this, Nancy would be the one.
The clostest I will ever come to world records is filing the applications when they are broken at meets that I direct. That being said, I think it would be a lot more fun to represent my country at an international meet than the local group I swim with. True, if the FINA rule were to one day change to allow swimmers to represent their countries in international competition, relay records would get faster. But, is that necessarily a bad thing? I find it quite inspiring to see a quartet of swimmers go faster than any their age have ever before. Other than the fact I am not that much farther from being on a record setting relay, would it be bad for adult swimming around the world if records got faster?
I can see why people will get up set with recruiting faster swimmer to join their team for this purpose, but if we didn't have to leave our local teams to swim together internationally, would the same objections still stand?
Changing a FINA rule is not going to happen overnight and most likely will not be initiated by the US. Still, we do have a representative to FINA in Nancy Ridout. If anyone can build the coalition needed to pass something like this, Nancy would be the one.
