2011 14th Fina World Swimming Championships
Shanghai, China
Sat July 24 - Sun Aug 1st
Schedule
Results
Pretraining
there's Six pretraining venues has already prepared for the teams and athletics who arrive in shanghai ahead of the scheduled time. & the cheapest they charge the athletes to train is $20 per hour per swimmer.
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Former Member
I suspect it's not the venue that's the problem; it's the overall Olympic athlete cap that FINA is bumping up against. Same reason why we don't get a women's 1500M or men's 800M and the number of relays are very limited*- the IOC thinks there are already too many swimmers and swim events, and if we let the number of swimmers grow more, they'd have to reduce the slots for table tennis or synchronized trampoline or something.
*I wish the IOC would adopt the NCAA's 'qualify four people individually, and they can swim a relay' rule because it would make for more relays at the meet, some of which can probably make finals, while keeping the athlete cap in place. Even if you get the occasional oddball entry where your 10M tower diver ends up swimming a freestyle leg for said patched together relay.
I suspect it's not the venue that's the problem; it's the overall Olympic athlete cap that FINA is bumping up against. Same reason why we don't get a women's 1500M or men's 800M and the number of relays are very limited*- the IOC thinks there are already too many swimmers and swim events, and if we let the number of swimmers grow more, they'd have to reduce the slots for table tennis or synchronized trampoline or something.
*I wish the IOC would adopt the NCAA's 'qualify four people individually, and they can swim a relay' rule because it would make for more relays at the meet, some of which can probably make finals, while keeping the athlete cap in place. Even if you get the occasional oddball entry where your 10M tower diver ends up swimming a freestyle leg for said patched together relay.
