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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our team won't let anyone swim
In an A meet without a time trial, makeup time trial or B meet time.[/quote]

Make-up time trial = after practice at our pool. [/quote]

How? who is the starter? Timers? [/quote]

This could provide consolation, or anger, but hand timing swim races is notoriously inaccurate. Times are almost always faster than the real times, and the clerk is constantly trying to reconcile times, place order etc. Even in usa swimming with touchpads, you would be surprised at how much hand waving there is when there is no pad time. It can mean the difference between making a cut or not, but the officials usually have only a few seconds to look at a time before going on to the next. In summer swim, kids are making A meets or All stars or whatever off janky times, which is fine because it's all just for fun.[/quote]

When I’ve been a backup timer at club meets with a touch pad, my times are nearly always within +/- 0.12 of what shows up on the big board.  It’s rare that two swimmers from the same summer team are so closely matched that such a small error would make the difference between which one swims in the A meet and which doesn’t. Now on the margins of being an All Star or an alternate that’s a different story.  Just swim faster so that’s not a factor. All Stars does use touch pads. [/quote]

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