Poll: should Libby Lenton have the record

Not so sure about what? That she doped? If that is the case,then why is it Michael Phelps has those good swims, so does Lochte,Coughlin...but we don't even think of bringing up drugs with them. Heaven forbid that someone from another country has a fantastic swim but then it gets tarnished with "she might have been doping" Open your eyes please. Did you see what I highlighted? Sheesh!

My oh my - the poll has reversed to what the real world thinks.

So those of us who voted "no" are in some synthetic world then?

Yes, you do not exist anymore....you have been assimilated!!!!:rofl:

I seem to remember that we even have some men (who have sex changes swim against the women) and can hold a women's record.

I was at a YMCA district meeting Saturday. In the room was a mix of coaches, officials, parent volunteers, many of whom have been with Y swimming for a long, long time. I read the rules for meets really carefully because I set up all of ours, and help the coach get entries out. I read the by-laws of the differenting sanctioning entities as well. There was a blanket statement made about how the age groups at champs should be set up by one of the long time coaches. Others all murmured their agreements. 3 people in the room spoke up that they were wrong, myself, the coach who has hosted the district champs, and the district chair. These people all argued that we were wrong until the district chair pulled the by-laws up and showed them. I point this out because there were officials who worked our championship meets in there that did not know the rules. So I can believe there were officials on the deck here that did not know the FINA rules. Should they, heck yes, but in case they don't you better hope the meet ref and admin ref do.

To all those on the nay side, why??? I said nay because I feel FINA may have had a rationale behind their rule, and I believe it could have had something to do with a perceived unfair advantage women may gain by attempting to draft off men. Also because of what I saw and heard on the DVR recording. :2cents:

One of the reasons I keep bringing up the rules is because when you become an official, the testing is quite extensive on certain issues. For Admin, I had to answer quite a few questions on valid events for LSC, National and World records even though I will likely never work an event that I have to be concerned about this. I know things are spelled out in USA rules, and the people on site running the meet should know the rules, and should know BEFORE the race that no world records were being contended.

I thought open water was sometimes fastest? Ie., that would be a strategy to lead off your relay with your fastest person. Or, I thought that open water and the lack of turbulence is why some people question the validity of Popov's time trial 50m free, where no one was directly next to him? So how can it be argued both ways? I would think that the turbulence coming off Phelps, in addition to providing a draft, would have possibly hindered Libby, especially near the wall. Either way, I hope she does that time again. She is smokin' fast!

I think the main reason for the rule change was that the dolphin kick was just too hard to judge. Sometimes the judges saw it, other times they didn't. A rule that can't be judged consistently is worthless. Unfortunately, it turns out that if a judge can't see whether one dolphin kick occurred they also can't see whether one or two dolphin kicks occurred, so we all got to watch swimmers at worlds doing multiple dolphin kicks.