New blocks installed for the Worlds.
I've read that the use of the new blocks was postponed due at lack of availability. A change of mind of FINA ?
You can see it on the official website.
look at this image.
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there would be a need for a pre-race weigh in, and each swimmer would then be given a weigh belt, so that all the smaller swimmers weigh as much as the largest for each event.
or set a min weight, so the larger swimmers would be at disadvantage, but the smaller swimmers would have to wear weight belts to reach that min weight.
And, at long last, a handicapping system is brought into the world of swimmers when the King of Sports (Swimming) is finally equal to the Sport of Kings (Horse-racing.)
Would someone who designs starting blocks be a blockhead?
:D :D
And would those who tear down the old starting blocks to replace them with new ones be blockbusters?
there would be a need for a pre-race weigh in, and each swimmer would then be given a weigh belt, so that all the smaller swimmers weigh as much as the largest for each event.
or set a min weight, so the larger swimmers would be at disadvantage, but the smaller swimmers would have to wear weight belts to reach that min weight.
Someone has been reading Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House." Who will act as Handicapper General?
And would those who tear down the old starting blocks to replace them with new ones be blockbusters?
And those bought and paid for by a certain accounting firm could be H & R Blocks...
(I would love it if they allowed backstrokers to dive in from the blocks -- I miss the old stand-up starts, too.)
Given these new blocks, one must wonder why backstrokers can't at least curl their toes...
If Feinstein raced, would his be called a 'writer's block'?
If you fished from one would it be called 'block and tackle'?
If you broke the block while replacing it would you be forever known as 'the chip off the old block'?
