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Jun. 6th, 2025 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lise_liseSchool holidays start July 5 (until August 17) and Milco is immediately going away with his girlfriend's family for two weeks then. He's already done school-wise, but Nicolai isn't.
We are not going anywhere this summer. There are world championships in Singapore, but Asia and a long flight don't appeal to me.
Also World Aquatics have a schedule that doesn't care for masters, with the Open Water two weeks before Pool -- and they're the same swimmers. When asked, one person with WA replied: "it's not a problem, I know people who go home in between or who travel."
No serious swimmer GOES HOME. Serious swim countries are all too far away. You're left with rich pensionados and tourists incorporating a swim meet into their holidays.
So I didn't want to fund WA. (I also didn't go to the previous edition in Doha, but that was because of their opinion of women.)
I'd rather focus on the next European tournaments in Lublin and Paris.
We are not going anywhere this summer. There are world championships in Singapore, but Asia and a long flight don't appeal to me.
Also World Aquatics have a schedule that doesn't care for masters, with the Open Water two weeks before Pool -- and they're the same swimmers. When asked, one person with WA replied: "it's not a problem, I know people who go home in between or who travel."
No serious swimmer GOES HOME. Serious swim countries are all too far away. You're left with rich pensionados and tourists incorporating a swim meet into their holidays.
So I didn't want to fund WA. (I also didn't go to the previous edition in Doha, but that was because of their opinion of women.)
I'd rather focus on the next European tournaments in Lublin and Paris.
