Can one be DQ'd at a USMS sanctioned meet if your suit falls off upon diving in and you find yourself nude? Or if it starts to slide down, down, down during a race until, oops! it's off?
I know my options if my suit were to malfunction during a race and I wished to continue would be to (a) stop in the middle as long as I didn't touch the lane lines or put my feet on the bottom of the pool, or (b) stop at a wall and do all adjustments there.
But if it plumb came off, would I get DQ'd?
Curious, here.
You never can predict a race.
Izzy
I'm trying to post a poll but may not be able to figure out how, re suit malfunctions.
Of all the things that can happen in a meet, the top ones are probably missing your event, goggles coming off/down, cap comes off, suit malfunction, and perhaps a super huge cramp in a non-toe location. I say you can train for no goggles, no luck on missing your event, Igor-stroking with a cramp, mop impersonation with hair going everywhere, but make a mental decision NOW, that if you have a suit malfunction, then GO FOR IT! It's the one time you will do a race and never feel the pain, as you are too preoccupied with modesty issues. So decide NOW to LET IT RIP, literally and figuratively, if and when that happens.
Of all the things that can happen in a meet, the top ones are probably missing your event, goggles coming off/down, cap comes off, suit malfunction, and perhaps a super huge cramp in a non-toe location. I say you can train for no goggles, no luck on missing your event, Igor-stroking with a cramp, mop impersonation with hair going everywhere, but make a mental decision NOW, that if you have a suit malfunction, then GO FOR IT! It's the one time you will do a race and never feel the pain, as you are too preoccupied with modesty issues. So decide NOW to LET IT RIP, literally and figuratively, if and when that happens.
