2010 CONOCO PHILLIPS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships will be held at the
William Woollett Aquatic Center at
4601 Walnut Ave. Irvine, CA 92604
from
August 3rd to August 7th.
The event will also serve as trials for numerous events including the
2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacifc Championships to be held in Irvine later in August. Come watch the top swimmers from across the nation rip up the water under the bright California sun. Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps, Katie Hoff and new American talent will all be battling it out for a spot on the international stage. The competition will once again be televised nationally by NBC.
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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.
Josh should have dotted his Ps and Qs before he missed his event that he signed up. He is a grown a** man for Pete's sake. Also, you sound like Lindsay Lohan's lawyer with this "spirit of the law" stuff. Anyway, they have been many highly ranked swimmers in the past who violated rules and thus, they didn't make the National teams for Worlds, Olympics, etc. Why should this guy get better treatment than previous swimmers?
Shoot out to Dave Nolan,17, who place 5th in the 200 IM prelim. He had an excellent swim in the same heat as Lochte. The wooing from colleges has got to be insane for him. Plus, he comes from Hershey, PA. Wow!
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.
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.
He is still the one that is responsible for being where he was suppose to be. Swimmers that are high ranking get left off of teams all the time. Is right that someone who is a highly ranked swimmer gets left off the team because they had missed taper? That isn't their fault as well but they still get left home. .
Regardless of who didn't scratch him or tell him to show-up, the rules are there. He didn't follow them, he shouldn't have been allowed to swim the 50. He should be dq'd from the event as well.
What the heck happened to Jessica Hardy last night?
Soni was impressive last night. Beard had a respectable showing considering to return to the sport, post baby.
Ok, they let Josh Schneider swim last night. It is a crazy rule for scratching but it doesn't take monstrous effort to scratch. Nice job to Nathan Adrian. He is the man in the sprints for USA.
The women's 400 IM was a bloodbath. Katie Hoff really needs to work on her fly and back, but she still had a great back half.
Ok, they let Josh Schneider swim last night. It is a crazy rule for scratching but it doesn't take monstrous effort to scratch. Nice job to Nathan Adrian. He is the man in the sprints for USA.
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I can see why they let Josh Schneider swim. He says he never knew he was entered in the 100 fly. Not sure how he never knew but it has something to do with him switching teams, I guess. If he didn't know he was entered in it, he wouldn't know to scratch.
I can see why they let Josh Schneider swim. He says he never knew he was entered in the 100 fly. Not sure how he never knew but it has something to do with him switching teams, I guess. If he didn't know he was entered in it, he wouldn't know to scratch.
How the heck do you not know? You don't read a psych sheet! Sounds like some miscommunication with the teams/coaching/?. Maybe you don't read psych sheets at the elite level or something. Wow!
He still shouldn't have been allowed to swim the 50 free. Someone entered him in the 100 fly, his coach or someone failed to scratch him from the prelims. Since they have the rule of missing an event and being scratched from the next one, he shouldn't have been able to swim the 50.
Totally right! If he didn't scratch the 100 fly, then DQ in the 50 free. Sorry, life isn't fair. If the lower ranked swimmers at Nationals have to follow these rules, then the elite ones did to follow the rules too.
Totally right! If he didn't scratch the 100 fly, then DQ in the 50 free. Sorry, life isn't fair. If the lower ranked swimmers at Nationals have to follow these rules, then the elite ones did to follow the rules too.
Well said. At USMS if/when anybody files a protest, the first question asked of the Protest Committee to the swimmer is usually, "is there something the meet host or USMS did in error to cause this problem?" If the answer is no, well...:badday:
Who was the Olympic track ? guy that missed his race because of the wrong time from his coach ?
It was a Dutch speed skater in this past year's Winter Olympics. He was pegged to win the event too!
