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.
As someone who wears contacts under goggles, that's would definitely be a dealbreaker for me. I guess in the rare case I was swimming a 50 I could survive, but pretty much anything more and I'd stop to fix them, or take a DNF.
I have developed cramps while swimming in a few meets, and I've always been able to work through them. I may take a little extra at a wall (kind of spring off it more) to work out a leg cramp.
As to the suit...there have been times when it started to go down. But as someone else said, you'd have to really try to have it come completely off. Generally most people wear a tight suit for a meet (even if not a tech suit). If it takes 5-10 min to squeeze into a jammer, you can imagine it takes some time to get out of it.
A brief is a bit easier, and that's when I could feel it sliding down. I've always had time to adjust before I pull out, and never had anyone say anything.
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.
As someone who wears contacts under goggles, that's would definitely be a dealbreaker for me. I guess in the rare case I was swimming a 50 I could survive, but pretty much anything more and I'd stop to fix them, or take a DNF.
I have developed cramps while swimming in a few meets, and I've always been able to work through them. I may take a little extra at a wall (kind of spring off it more) to work out a leg cramp.
As to the suit...there have been times when it started to go down. But as someone else said, you'd have to really try to have it come completely off. Generally most people wear a tight suit for a meet (even if not a tech suit). If it takes 5-10 min to squeeze into a jammer, you can imagine it takes some time to get out of it.
A brief is a bit easier, and that's when I could feel it sliding down. I've always had time to adjust before I pull out, and never had anyone say anything.
