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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The number of officials and timers required for summer swim meets seems overly excessive for a rec league. Even for USA swimming, dual meets only require 3-4 officials and 2 timers per lane. Regular timed final meets only require 4 officials. Are summer swim meet times official as per USA swimming? If not, I would advise to drop the dog pony show of 3 watches per lane and so many stroke and turn officials. Those stopwatch times, whether one or three, are not very accurate anyway. They are almost always faster than the real time. [/quote]

If you only had two timers per lane at a pool with no touchpads, instead of just taking the middle time, those two times would have to be averaged after every, single swim. And the table workers would have to confirm every single one of those those averages. [/quote]

Wait.  Are you saying that every single lane in a local kids swim meet has three adults standing there timing each kid?  So like 15 adults timing a bunch of 8 year olds swimming across their local pool?  That's.... insane.
Will some kid get stuck with a timer with a slow finger now and then? Yeah, probably.  Just like every pitcher has to deal with umpires who don't know the strike zone and every soccer team has refs that make crappy calls.  That's life. [/quote]

Have you never attended any of these meets?  What are you doing here?[/quote]

+2.  You clearly have never been to a meet.  But please comment away.  Your insights are enlightening :roll: .  [/quote]

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