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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A team put some of their fastest All-Star level swimmers in lane one, but then still had them in relays for the strokes where they had "no time"[/quote]

I've never understood swimming's obsession with what lane someone is swimming in.[/quote]

Um. This isn't a swimming thing. F1, track, etc.

Position matters for racing.[/quote]

In this case, lane position did NOT matter for the opposing team that was complaining. The disadvantage was for the “all star” swimmer in an outside lane. The opposing team swimmer in the middle lane should have swum his fastest regardless of who was swimming where.

The advantage of the middle lanes in swimming is that the water is less turbulent to swim through. Swimmers in outside lanes have more waves to contend with from bouncing off walls and other swimmers.
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Some swimmers race the pool, not the clock. Those swimmers are hugely disadvantaged if the actual competition is four lanes away.[/quote]

Ok, the swimmer must not do club swim. Those meets can be seeded all over the place.

That said, I wouldn’t say it was “unsportsmanlike”. Our pool has a policy where previous years times are not used and NT would have been entered if the swimmer missed time trials. Nothing nefarious or unsportsmanlike. The swimmer that was disadvantaged was the kid in the outside lane.[/quote]

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