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.
Sure Mark, the next time a 41 year old female masters swimmer from another country qualifies for their trials, makes their team....or better yet can beat Susan then I would argue they should make at least the "alternate" picks from SW. And give me break on Dara and Foster....
Rich, first thing I said was that I was not taking anything away from the others selected and yes I would agree that Laura is very deserving and being on the cover is great....now I will ask you if you think Susan was not in the top 10 female masters swimmers in the world last year? Question asked, question answered. If the system SW is currently using misses that than the system is broken.
And yes....I've gotten a lot meaner lately mainly due to John's cheating ways and whiny attitude!
Sure Mark, the next time a 41 year old female masters swimmer from another country qualifies for their trials, makes their team....or better yet can beat Susan then I would argue they should make at least the "alternate" picks from SW. And give me break on Dara and Foster....
Rich, first thing I said was that I was not taking anything away from the others selected and yes I would agree that Laura is very deserving and being on the cover is great....now I will ask you if you think Susan was not in the top 10 female masters swimmers in the world last year? Question asked, question answered. If the system SW is currently using misses that than the system is broken.
And yes....I've gotten a lot meaner lately mainly due to John's cheating ways and whiny attitude!
