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[quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately the only way to make this "more fair" is to have smaller age groups - instead of the current 24 months (9-10, 11-12, 13-14) have 1 year or even 6 month brackets. Because as we all know, you can now have a 11y1d swimmer competing against a 12y364d swimmer in the same event - a 24 month difference. A reconciling would be to have the range be 6 months - 11y1d to 11y181d instead. But 1) there aren't always enough swimmers to flesh out a heat and then you have half empty heats which takes longer and then 2) you'd end giving out 4x as many medals etc. So unfortunately there isn't really a great solution for this that I can envision. Part of the problem is that the season is so long for the swimming (oct-apr or so) that it doesn't track well to have a singular cutoff.[/quote]
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