The 2012 United States Olympic Trials - Swimming
will once again be held at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
The 2008 Trials set a new standard for swimming excitement and 2012 promises to bring even more poolside thrills to America's Heartland.
Check back often for updates as we draw closer to naming the team that will represent the United States in the pool at the London Olympic Games.
When: Mon June 25th - Mon July 2nd 2012
DAYS Till
Where: Qwest Center Omaha
455 North 10th Street Omaha, NE 68102
PSYCH Sheet
RESULTS
One cool thing is the website has USA Olympic Swimming Trials Results from 1920 - 2008
CUTS
APPROVED TECH SUITS
Link to 2012 Olympic Swimming
but the coolest thing is our 2012 LCM Nats is in the same pool starting Thu July 5th, 2012
2012 USMS Summer LCM Nationals
Qwest Center, Omaha, NE
Thu July 5 - Sun 8, 2012
Long Course Meters
Qualifying Times will be available in early 2012
2012 Olympics USMS Forum Site
There would be a swim off. They would not go to the one thousandth of a second like they announced after the race on NBC. Now the Track and Field Federation is reviewing there options.
There has been one time in the history of swimming that a race was decided by a thousandth of a second and that was the 400 IM final at the 1972 Olympics and Gunnar Larsson and Tim McKee had the identical time of 4:31.98 and the Omega timing device was dismantled and upon inspection it was found that Larrson had touched two-thousandths of a second ahead of McKee and he was awarded the gold medal.
It was determined later that due to many factors like the possibility that lane lengths could vary slightly that judging a race in thousands of a second would not be accurate. This decision led to change in the international swimming rules that places would be award to a one hundredth of a second and swimmers with identical times would be award ties and both would get the same medal.
Twice in Olympic history, two people have tied for the gold medal in these circumstances and those events were the Women's 100 Free where Carrie Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead had the identical times of 55.92 at the 1984 Olympics and both were award the gold medal. The other instance was the Men's 50 Free at the 2000 Olympics where Gary Hall Jr. and Anthony Ervin had identical times of 21.98
Great swim for Steven West: 1:03.9, vs seed of 1:04.68 2nd in his heat! Masters WR is 1:04.86Unfortunately Steve’s time won’t count as a Masters World Record, but it will be a USMS record!
Great Swim!
Unfortunately Steve’s time won’t count as a Masters World Record, but it will be a USMS record!
Can you explain why it wouldn't count as a Masters WR? All these different sanctioning bodies confuse me...
Thx,
Skip
Can you explain why it wouldn't count as a Masters WR? All these different sanctioning bodies confuse me...
Thx,
Skip
Skip:
You cannot set a World Record that is not sanctioned by a FINA Member Nation as a masters meet. This is not a Masters sanctioned meet but a meet that is sanctioned by USA Swimming. All masters swimmers at this meet are not swimming as masters registered swimmers but as USA registered athletes that made the qualifying time standards and have nothing to do with masters swimming. USMS, unlike FINA accepts times for Records and Top Ten from USA Swimming meets. FINA only accepts times from masters meets for both FINA Top Ten and FINA Records.
