I believe someone also said that the meet results could not be official until all such split requests were received, meaning that meet results wouldn't be official until 30 days after the meet. I don't know the reasoning behind that statement; but by that point in the meeting it was clear that most of the Committee was against the proposal. The vote was unanimous to withdraw the proposal.
Bottom line: it is much easier to determine if a split time is legit at the meet itself.
This is frustrating, and is such a disservice to swimmers.
The rule proposal that I was looking for was to _ALLOW_ for this to be possible, not _REQUIRE_ that it be possible.
If should be up to ME as a meet director, in conjunction with my Meet Referee, to determine if I am willing to do the work to verify splits after the meet is over.
Well... my guess is that from now on, we will just include blanket text in every meet entry form that says "I hereby request that every one of my splits be considered as an official time". I would encourage all swimmers going to any meet to bury the Meet Director and Meet Referee with official requests for splits during the meet for every swim that they participate in.
As it is... so at the end of the meet, we consider the results official. Guess what... if I discover a major tabulation error in the results 30 days later... I'm going to amend the results and make the correction. Sorry, your time of 9:35.65 in the 1650 freestyle was a technical error, and you do not get the world record just because we didn't notice it before the end of the meet.
-Rick
I believe someone also said that the meet results could not be official until all such split requests were received, meaning that meet results wouldn't be official until 30 days after the meet. I don't know the reasoning behind that statement; but by that point in the meeting it was clear that most of the Committee was against the proposal. The vote was unanimous to withdraw the proposal.
Bottom line: it is much easier to determine if a split time is legit at the meet itself.
This is frustrating, and is such a disservice to swimmers.
The rule proposal that I was looking for was to _ALLOW_ for this to be possible, not _REQUIRE_ that it be possible.
If should be up to ME as a meet director, in conjunction with my Meet Referee, to determine if I am willing to do the work to verify splits after the meet is over.
Well... my guess is that from now on, we will just include blanket text in every meet entry form that says "I hereby request that every one of my splits be considered as an official time". I would encourage all swimmers going to any meet to bury the Meet Director and Meet Referee with official requests for splits during the meet for every swim that they participate in.
As it is... so at the end of the meet, we consider the results official. Guess what... if I discover a major tabulation error in the results 30 days later... I'm going to amend the results and make the correction. Sorry, your time of 9:35.65 in the 1650 freestyle was a technical error, and you do not get the world record just because we didn't notice it before the end of the meet.
-Rick
