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.:)
Can't we all just get along, libeled sandbaggers and ninny blowhards alike?
I was once the victim of a sandbagger, who entered a ludicrously slow (for him) time in the 100 free, then proceeded to swim a 49 or 48. The only thing that bugged me was that I caught and swallowed down my wind pipe a wave of backwash off the second turn.
I called him out on it here on these very forums, even going so far as to propose using his last name (which has a comedic Germanic quality) as the new verb for egregious sanbagging.
To my knowledge, nobody has EVER complained about Leslie's alleged sandbagging, that is, nobody WHO HAS ACTUALLY SWAM IN HER HEAT. Hell, she swims most of her races under water.you hardly know she's there! No chance of water floooding down your windpipe off the walls. She hardly stirs the surface!
I say to Mr ninny: let someone who has been aggrieved make the case she's done him or her wrong, if such a person exists. As for you, unless you've been personally affected, desist your criticisms, which only make you seem mean. Try to be a bit more like Rodney King!
Can't we all just get along, libeled sandbaggers and ninny blowhards alike?
I was once the victim of a sandbagger, who entered a ludicrously slow (for him) time in the 100 free, then proceeded to swim a 49 or 48. The only thing that bugged me was that I caught and swallowed down my wind pipe a wave of backwash off the second turn.
I called him out on it here on these very forums, even going so far as to propose using his last name (which has a comedic Germanic quality) as the new verb for egregious sanbagging.
To my knowledge, nobody has EVER complained about Leslie's alleged sandbagging, that is, nobody WHO HAS ACTUALLY SWAM IN HER HEAT. Hell, she swims most of her races under water.you hardly know she's there! No chance of water floooding down your windpipe off the walls. She hardly stirs the surface!
I say to Mr ninny: let someone who has been aggrieved make the case she's done him or her wrong, if such a person exists. As for you, unless you've been personally affected, desist your criticisms, which only make you seem mean. Try to be a bit more like Rodney King!
