2010 conoco phillips national championships

I'm watching now. My team mate is in the 100 fly :) What's his name? I'm watching until I need to leave for the pool to work with my swim coach. :D Soni put in a good race!

So the mens 50 free results are not posted and we have some issue with Josh Schneider , is this the cause of the delay? Has the event been performed yet?

I actually had to break out my USA Swimming 2010 Rulebook. It appears this is governed by rule 207.12.6D and E. That seems fairly straightforward in regards to scratches. So, then I tried to find the suit inspection rules and only have found this thus far: If any of your athletes come to any of these championship meets without the FINA-approval labeling on the swimsuits, they will only be permitted to be worn after an inspection of the suit in the last call room. To avoid this last-minute stress, please make sure you arrive at the meet(s) with the labeling already on the competition suits. Specific procedures for suit inspection at these meets will be provided during the general meeting prior to the meet. So, I guess it comes down to whether showing up for suit inspection is a DQ. Alternatively, maybe he wore a non compliant suit on purpose realizing he had failed to scratch in a timely manner. In which case, that would be quite clever. Either way, it's confusing.

I think he is trying to argue that it was beyond his control, because an assistant coach entered him in the 100 fly without his knowledge or consent: E Exceptions for Failure to compete — No penalty shall apply for failure to withdraw or compete in an individual event if: (1) The Referee is notified in the event of illness or injury and accepts the proof thereof. (2) A swimmer qualifying for a C, B or A (bonus or consolation final or) final race based upon the results of the preliminaries notifies the Referee within thirty (30) minutes after announcement of the qualifiers for that race that they may not intend to compete and further declares their final intentions within thirty (30) minutes following their last individual preliminary event. (3) It is determined by the Referee that failure to compete is caused by circumstances beyond the control of the swimmer. While I feel for the guy, I think the buck stops with the swimmer. Tough lesson if the DQ holds.

I think he is trying to argue that it was beyond his control, because an assistant coach entered him in the 100 fly without his knowledge or consent: While I feel for the guy, I think the buck stops with the swimmer. Tough lesson if the DQ holds. Very interesting notion there. In the water, the mantra is "swimmer gets the benefit of the doubt." Not sure how this applies on land. I bet there's some good old fashioned yelling going on.

Are they going to leave a swimmer off the Pan Pac team who posted a time ranked 5th in the world this year (tied with Cullen, obviously) over what appears to be an assistant coach's mistake that led to a violation of an administrative rule? I'm not in the "rules are rules" camp on this one. It's not like he slowed down the meet or prevented another swimmer from swimming by missing the 100fly. The letter of the law was violated, but in the spirit of the law, I don't see where the harm was done. Um, you don't get a pass for these reasons. That's why we have rules and officials. No one should get special treatment. I'm not saying any was given, just an overall statement.

If he didn't show up for suit inspection, then he still should be considered a "no show" for the 100 fly. If going to suit inspection is part of the rules, he failed to follow them. I believe that the argument was that by failing to get to the suit inspection on time he was automatically DQed from the 100 fly and so not expected to show up at the blocks. The difference with a no-show is that you are DQed from the next event. This is undoubtedly a loophole in the rules, but whether it a loophole or not it's still the rules.

Who was the Olympic track ? guy that missed his race because of the wrong time from his coach ?

I believe that the argument was that by failing to get to the suit inspection on time he was automatically DQed from the 100 fly and so not expected to show up at the blocks. The difference with a no-show is that you are DQed from the next event. This is undoubtedly a loophole in the rules, but whether it a loophole or not it's still the rules. I understand the arguement. But, he was entered in the 100 fly. He failed to follow the rules in place for the meet. Since he missed the 100 fly, he should have been dq'ed from the 50 free.

I can't believe Phelps went 50.65 in the 100 butterfly after such a sloppy 200. Wow!