How old is this pool? I think it was built around 1995 and it has held numerous BIG meets.
A&M has a famous engineering department and now we find out that the pool is short by a fraction over an inch?
Unbelievable...................
May 18, 2008 It looks more like there was a timing issue at the pool...
The results now posted from this morning read:
Event 25 Women 50 LC Meter Breaststroke
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Name Age Team Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Tinnon, Elizabe 22 Longhorn 1:09.94 33.42
2 Iserman, Renee' 19 Aggie 1:14.35 34.05
3 Atkinson, Alia 19 Unattached 1:11.95 34.10
4 Beck, Spindrift 17 Mustangs 1:11.06 34.24
5 Collymore, Kimb 18 Coral Springs 1:16.31 34.38
6 Smith, Skylar 15 Aquastar 1:17.04 34.48
7 McKnight, Linds 14 Coral Springs 1:14.82 34.51
8 Betzen, Kannon 19 Unattached 1:12.82 34.62
So Beck wasn't even the top qualifier never mind the world record breaker.
Submitted by:
dcswimguy
May 18, 2008 DCswimguy,
Yeah, I'm definitely mentioning her real time during my finals recap.
Also, I'm hearing some talk about USA Swimming accepting converted times from this meet for Trials. Don't want to hurt the swimmers that get their cuts here.
Plus, when you think about it, all of the Olympic roster spot contenders already have all their times, or should have. The people getting cuts this weekend for the first time probably aren't going to be contending for finals in Omaha. Why not let them go?
Submitted by:
Jason Marsteller
May 18, 2008 It can't just be a distance thing. Correcting her time from 49.97m to 50m would be ~0.01s, definitely at the very most 0.03s, which would still put her WELLLL under the WR. It's gotta be a timing issue.
Submitted by:
Sphere
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