Im canceling my subscription to Swimming World.
Yes all of the swimmers picked were VERY worthy and nothing against any of them or their accomplishments.
But your going to tell me that the panel who choose these 6 men and 6 women (and 8 runner ups) didn't deem Susan Von der Lippe worthy of this honor:
I guess something like a total of almost 30 Top 10 times in all 3 courses didn't count? nor did the tally of #1 times on those lists? And simply breaking 5 SCM world records over 2 days is...as we all know...a joke.
And I know this is a reach now...stay with me on this...but being the oldest female swimmer and the first over 40 to make Olympic Trials cuts all while working a job, raising kids/a family, training only 3x a week....yeah, yeah I know thats pushing it...so I won't even mention she made her second trials cuts a month ago since that was done over at an evil USS meet and SW is probably correct in their belief it "doesn't count" in the masters world.
Susan...nice try in 2007...but you'll need to step up a bit more in 2008 if you want to be considered.
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Also the critera is that it must be set in a Masters Sanctions Meet and not other meets. Many years ago there were swimmers in the Top Ten and they set many USMS Records and were faster than the listed FINA Word Record but because they did not set there records in masters meets, there swims were ignored by FINA. World Records can only be established in a Masters meet sanction by a Member. And this is written in FINA rule MSW 6.2 per FINA Rule Book.
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
Very sad indeed.
Also the critera is that it must be set in a Masters Sanctions Meet and not other meets. Many years ago there were swimmers in the Top Ten and they set many USMS Records and were faster than the listed FINA Word Record but because they did not set there records in masters meets, there swims were ignored by FINA. World Records can only be established in a Masters meet sanction by a Member. And this is written in FINA rule MSW 6.2 per FINA Rule Book.
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
Very sad indeed.
