The anti-sandbag law:
"if a swimmer enters an event with a time significantly slower or faster than that swimmer's recorded time in the past two years, the meet director may, after a discussion with the swimmer, change the seeded time to a realistic time" (104.5.5.A(10)).
Concerning my Auburn nationals entry, I confess, when faced with a 7 hour 2 stop flight and 3:45 nonstop at an earlier time, I did what any warm-blooded middle-aged American swimmer with low self-esteem would do--sandbag my entry so I could catch the earlier flight, thus diminishing the possible time spent sitting next to a 400 pound Alabama slammer with sleep apnea wearing nothing but overalls and body odor. Of course, I was caught in my bold fabrication and my time was "fixed."
USMS seems to have an identity problem. Are we hard core with rigid qualifying times? It would seem not as 2 of my not-so-speedy family members were allowed to swim four events last year in Puerto Rico. If we are not hard core, why does anybody care that I sandbag? More to the point, why can one person enter a crappy time and another cannot? Just wondering.:)
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Former Member
Mr. Guthrie,
Of course it's sandbagging. She has a long and sordid history of sandbagging.
I have heard the gender discrimination whine before, it didn't work then, it doesn't work now. The idea that just because you are a women you are placed in an outside lane is absurd.
However, Mr. Guthrie, be cautious.
I once suggested an asterik by her "records" as a remedy for violating the spirit of competition. That didn't go over well. When I tried to explain my distaste for such behavior, I too was called names. Not only by the sandbagger, but by her minions in PMs.
My suggestion is to let it go. It is only masters swimming.
Mr. Guthrie,
Of course it's sandbagging. She has a long and sordid history of sandbagging.
I have heard the gender discrimination whine before, it didn't work then, it doesn't work now. The idea that just because you are a women you are placed in an outside lane is absurd.
However, Mr. Guthrie, be cautious.
I once suggested an asterik by her "records" as a remedy for violating the spirit of competition. That didn't go over well. When I tried to explain my distaste for such behavior, I too was called names. Not only by the sandbagger, but by her minions in PMs.
My suggestion is to let it go. It is only masters swimming.
