Swimmers spend their lives training to improve their performance. Coaches rightly focus on improving “PBs” (personal best times) rather than winning races. It’s therefore crucial that swimming timekeepers are accurate. The standard measure of a swimming time is to 1/100th of a second. For most events human timekeepers pressing a button are either the primary […]

I vaguely recall a great Dilbert cartoon about PPPPPPP (a.k.a. prior planning and preparation preventing piss poor performance). Although this management nugget is as old as the hills, tonight I found that there’s nothing like a targeted refresher to awaken me out of my complacency. The NSW Office of Sport staged their second High Performing […]