Are there any other sites where photos from the World Championships are available? The www.spitfirephoto.com site has 82 amateur pics, mostly of the backs of people or distance shots of the pool. Anyone taking closeups of the swimmers so we can find friends (or enemies)?
For the longest time at our winter meet, the Saturday afternoon session opened up with Senior 50 free. As the meet got popular, we would have 25-30 heats of 50 free. since it was the start of the session, we are always scrambling a bit, getting the scratches done, downloading the timing system, printing heat sheets, and timer sheets, all the things that we have to do to get the meet going. And then you get slammed by fly-overs 50's, and in short course, Seniors, you are moving really fast through the heats. I begged the meet organizers for years to move those after the relays, in fact do the relays, take a short break to give the swimmers some breathing room. They finally did it last year, and it made quite a difference. The relays gave us some breathing room to make sure pads were working, to let the timers figure out their watches, for the swimmers to think where they were suppose to be(teenagers can be quite spacey!). Still even now, whenever we get them done, and I believe they are followed by 200 *** now, the Colorado operator sighs in big relief, because they are tough!
For the longest time at our winter meet, the Saturday afternoon session opened up with Senior 50 free. As the meet got popular, we would have 25-30 heats of 50 free. since it was the start of the session, we are always scrambling a bit, getting the scratches done, downloading the timing system, printing heat sheets, and timer sheets, all the things that we have to do to get the meet going. And then you get slammed by fly-overs 50's, and in short course, Seniors, you are moving really fast through the heats. I begged the meet organizers for years to move those after the relays, in fact do the relays, take a short break to give the swimmers some breathing room. They finally did it last year, and it made quite a difference. The relays gave us some breathing room to make sure pads were working, to let the timers figure out their watches, for the swimmers to think where they were suppose to be(teenagers can be quite spacey!). Still even now, whenever we get them done, and I believe they are followed by 200 *** now, the Colorado operator sighs in big relief, because they are tough!
