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.
just looked at the list of WRs and I found the first time for Men 25-29 to be interesting.
on another thread something mentioned that you have to practice with a Masters team in order to get a top 10 time. isn't there a rule for getting records too?
Stefan Nystrand only participated in the Swedish Masters Open because it was in his home town, I seriously doubt that he practiced with the Masters group for his club.
just looked at the list of WRs and I found the first time for Men 25-29 to be interesting.
on another thread something mentioned that you have to practice with a Masters team in order to get a top 10 time. isn't there a rule for getting records too?
Stefan Nystrand only participated in the Swedish Masters Open because it was in his home town, I seriously doubt that he practiced with the Masters group for his club.
