I was looking at the photo gallery from 2008 Trials and the competition pool was a ten-lane pool with only eight lanes used, even in preliminaries. The two end lanes did not even have blocks. For USMS Nationals, we should use all ten lanes, like at Atlanta nationals last week. I'm putting this out there early, so that we don't end up with those two extra blocks not being installed in the temporary venue :)
Very good observation. I asked the same question a couple months ago. The answer: FINA is most likely going to 10 lanes in the 2012 Olympics and as such Omaha is planning on going with a 10 lane course for 2012 Trials. Which means there will be 20 blocks (10 from each end since the 50 starts at the far end).
I was looking at the photo gallery from 2008 Trials and the competition pool was a ten-lane pool with only eight lanes used, even in preliminaries. The two end lanes did not even have blocks. For USMS Nationals, we should use all ten lanes, like at Atlanta nationals last week. I'm putting this out there early, so that we don't end up with those two extra blocks not being installed in the temporary venue :)
Very good observation. I asked the same question a couple months ago. The answer: FINA is most likely going to 10 lanes in the 2012 Olympics and as such Omaha is planning on going with a 10 lane course for 2012 Trials. Which means there will be 20 blocks (10 from each end since the 50 starts at the far end).
