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AIDA World championship indoor 2011- Lignano

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Goran Colak said:
There are people comming just for qualify so how will they know when is their turn? This is bad call in my book... plus there is enough time to make it all in one day. For DNF male finals? I think 165 will be more then enough.
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I agree that there is ample time to complete all heats in one day, I reckon 3-4 hours is enough (8 people per heat, 1 heat every 12 mins = 32 people per hour incl a break for officials, probably only about 90 people participating in each event).

It is completely unfair to have an opening ceremony, then probably the first event committee (think long boring meeting explaining rules that the competitors at this level should already completely understand), then make people compete after, especially when it's unnecessary. It will just mean that people will not attend the opening ceremony, which would be a shame. Plus I don't know when they would prepare the start list as you can still arrive and register up until 10am.

Speculation is terrible guys - it puts a minimum limit on people and causes them to BO just to try to meet that figure to make the finals...
 
KatFish said:
Speculation is terrible guys - it puts a minimum limit on people and causes them to BO just to try to meet that figure to make the finals...
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rofl

I reckon it'll be 240m minimum for DYN, 190m for DNF. Any less than that and you'll have no chance of making the final.
 
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Mullins said:
rofl

I reckon it'll be 240m minimum for DYN, 190m for DNF. Any less than that and you'll have no chance of making the final.
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I have a team of 8 Chinese athletes who have never competed before and who I've been training in secret for the last year and a half. The worst of them has a PB of 255 DYN and 202m DNF, so it's going to take more than that.
 
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Will said:
I have a team of 8 Chinese athletes who have never competed before and who I've been training in secret for the last year and a half. The worst of them has a PB of 255 DYN and 202m DNF, so it's going to take more than that.
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The secret 8 will have good chances of making the final but there are rumours of a few competitors that will be allowed by AIDA to use snorkels throughout their dives as a part of a pilot scheme Will so I think at least 4-5 spots in the final will go to the snorkelers.
 
I think we'll see at least 16 snorkellers participating, though I think they'll cut some corners and score some penalty points for surface swimming, and an occasional grab.

I hope the organisation takes notice of this thread and the athletes concerns and make sure there is a level playing field.

Will Will's secret team have cover names? Will1- Will2 - Will3 would be attract some attention I think.

I'm looking forward to Women's competition as Natalia is facing a steadily closing in field of competitors!

To bad that Sara Campbell didn't have a bit more luck in Greece, it would have been nice for the sport. Kathryn did report some nice improvements in her static, but will it be enough to win from Natalia?
In dynamic there are some new stars appearing, let's see how they can keep their cool head to head with Natalia.

Love, Courage and Water,

Kars
 
The Smith Aerospace team of four using Orca fins have PB's in the 320-385m range so that will push up the qualifying bar even further.
 
I forgot to mention there is a harbor porpoise competing for Canada which I have been training for a few months. It is very clever and its PB in the ocean is over 2000m, but it sometimes gets confused in the pool and goes into adjacent lanes. It also struggles to give the OK signal with its flippers.
 
efattah said:
a harbor porpoise competing for Canada
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We'd better put our water chevrotain back in its box and start thinking of a Plan B then. It can only do about 400m creeping along the bottom and flatly refuses to surface if it thinks there are large birds around. A couple of gulls could hold up the entire competition.
 
Well jokes aside I hope clarity of the competition starts will come soon. I think most athletes do not need the additional stress of this uncertainty. Maybe only Seb Murat might benefit from this situation.
 
as long they don't have our AP how should they be able to make a startlist?

Relax and enjoy - we will all make it

(I do agree, that the information-level up to this competition is very low)
 
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It looks like it`s only going to be two persons at a time in the finals. To few judges to make a mass-start and as far as I know only two platforms. The "8 athletesfinals" are superexciting, so that`s too bad. I wonder what will decide the startlist for the finals?? Any suggestions here? Maybe results from qual., or maybe the normal AP??
Bjarte
 
Some more news from Lignano: The startlist for DNF qualifying will be up at 1015 tomorrow. It will be based on AP but it will be a random pick of either friday or saturday. So if you announce the highest you`ll be last of the day, but it might be the first day.
Then there is another "twist" on the finals. Instead of finals with 8 athletes, it will be with 23 athletes. Of course no B-final. (It wouldn`t be enough athletes:duh) And two athletes going at the same time.
 
2 x 8 = 16..

23 athletes in the final ???

Are there 23x2 judges? secondarily how do these judges move along the pool witnessing the athletes performance and exit?

:hmm
 
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23 male athletes and 23 female athletes. Not everyone at the same time of course.
I think everyones predictions about what it would take to make it to the finals is pretty far off... Anyone that want`s to come with a prediction now??
 
Let's do some gambling, because I'm tired and lazy at the moment and don't feel like feeding in the athletes' names into Ivo's statistics website (can we ban him from participating in this bet? )

Anyway here are my gamble numbers:

Men:
DYN: 165
DNF: 128
STA: 6'15"

Women:
DYN: 121
DNF: 98
STA: 5'15"
 
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