Talk:1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

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--JeffGBot (talk) 03:06, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On innovation...[edit]

I have moved this section (temporarily?) off the page:

This event was considered a trailblazer in the aspect of the organization of major championships in swimming. The innovation consisted in the introduction of the concept of purpose-built facilities for the event only. Previously all major international competitions, both long course and short course, were held at already-existing swimming pools, usually at clubs or facilities that had been built for previous sporting events. This limited the possibilities for organizers, especially in terms of making the event as attractive to the public and the media as possible.
For this event, the organizers built a temporary outdoor swimming pool on the sands of the Copacabana beach (near the border with the neighbouring Leme beach). This initiative not only added to the aesthetic aspect of the event, by associating with it the natural beauty offered by the city of Rio de Janeiro, but it also created the possibility of making available, at smaller costs and in a much faster fashion, a facility that was much larger and more modern than anything that the city had to offer at the time.
Since then, recent swimming events, such as the 2004 Short Course Worlds and the 2007 World Championships, used the formula developed by the organizers of the 1995 Short Course World Championships, by building temporary, purpose-built facilities for their respective events — in the case of the 2004 Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, the pool was assembled on top of a Basketball court, at a local team's gymnasium, and the organizing committee made repeated references to the "eye-opening event in Rio de Janeiro in 1995" in their decision of using a Basketball facility as the basis for the swimming facilities.

I am not quite sure how accurrate any of this is (i.e. citations are needed):

  • The fact that the competition pool was on the beach, itself, was unusual (and continues to be so). However, historically, purpose-built pools and temporary facilities had been in-use for awhile (for example: the pools "purposely built" for the 1932 and 1984 Olympics pools are both still in Los Angeles, and the 1984 Olympics warm-up pool was a temporary facility and was taken-down after the Games).
  • This information should not be part of the introduction of the article.
  • There seems to be bias toward the event/local host in it.
  • Many major international events happen at facilities that are built because a major international competition was to be held in the city (a la: Olympics, Continental Games, etc). Also, this was the second-ever 25m World Championship, so mentioning a historic-nature for the second-ever short-course event is premature.
  • Technological advances may have played a significant part in why it was possible to build this temporary pool at this time.
  • "gym" is a not the correct term for Conseco Field House (where the 1994 SC Worlds were swum).

-- Hooperswim (talk) 22:14, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Error in HistoFINA lists[edit]

The HistoFINA reference [1], which lists the men's results for the short source WCs, has assigned 4 world records (1995: 50 free, 100 fly, 200 fly, 400 IM) that are actually not WRs, see page 16-21. That these times are not WRs can be seen from the fact that in the same FINA document, on page 4, it says there were set 0 men's WRs during the 1995 competition. Moreover the four winning times do not appear in the world record progression lists, e.g. World record progression 50 metres freestyle, and are inconsistent with the times therein. Gap9551 (talk) 12:05, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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