Many of the forum regulars seem to be going to Stanford, alas, others of us will not be there. Some of you that are going will access the internet while there, however briefly- why not share?
I have created this thread so you can report on the sights, sounds, swims, sunburns, socials etc. It matters not whether you be 'elite', 'newbie' or whatever, your impressions would be interesting to read. You could comment on great swims, technique, facilities, judging, the announcer, outrageous behavior of other forum participants, complaints, kudos- whatever. If you do, I at least would be grateful and if the thread garners much in the way of postings it could be a valuable archive for people to check for future Worlds. I lay down the guantlet...
Hi, I was one of the Marshalls in the marshalling area all day on Tuesday. We would continually announce that relays had to swim in the order of the names we had on the heat sheets. We would even try to confirm the order of swimmers with the teams or teams would ask to look at who we had listed so that they could confirm the order they were suppose to go in. We weren't able to do this for each team because the marshalling area can be pretty chaotic with teams or individual team members showing up at the last minute, or not at all.
We also had some relays added that were not on our heats sheets so we did not have the swimming order (I don't know if the timers did or not).
Overall, though I think it went pretty well. With over 1500 relay teams originally entered I don't know if the DQs were numerically out of line.
Hi, I was one of the Marshalls in the marshalling area all day on Tuesday. We would continually announce that relays had to swim in the order of the names we had on the heat sheets. We would even try to confirm the order of swimmers with the teams or teams would ask to look at who we had listed so that they could confirm the order they were suppose to go in. We weren't able to do this for each team because the marshalling area can be pretty chaotic with teams or individual team members showing up at the last minute, or not at all.
We also had some relays added that were not on our heats sheets so we did not have the swimming order (I don't know if the timers did or not).
Overall, though I think it went pretty well. With over 1500 relay teams originally entered I don't know if the DQs were numerically out of line.
