FINA seems ready to set a maximum water temperature for open water swims at 31 degrees centigrade(87.8 Farenheit.) www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../35137.asp Further proof that swimmers welfare is not FINAs # 1 priority.
Do running races get called off when it is TOO HOT ?? I don't think so ! I have run1/2 & full marathons in 90 degree temps !!Two wrongs don't make it right. I dont know who FINA's decision serves. I have seen other commentators discuss money and the Middle East, but these events can't make organizers and sponsors that much money.
i think that, someday in the future, we start to look back in these days of events run in too much heat in the same way that minds have changed around concussions and head injuries: a past that we are almost ashamed of for our collective ignorance.
Do running races get called off when it is TOO HOT ?? I don't think so ! I have run1/2 & full marathons in 90 degree temps !!Two wrongs don't make it right. I dont know who FINA's decision serves. I have seen other commentators discuss money and the Middle East, but these events can't make organizers and sponsors that much money.
i think that, someday in the future, we start to look back in these days of events run in too much heat in the same way that minds have changed around concussions and head injuries: a past that we are almost ashamed of for our collective ignorance.
