This question has come up offline so I thought I'd post the question to find out the rule about this transitional turn between the IM's back and *** since I no longer do IMs.
Years ago, a flip turn between back and *** was allowed; it was not the new "freestyle" back turn, a swimmer could touch the wall in backstroke, and then flip over to enter the breastroke. Now I believe more swimmers are backstroking into the wall and open turning into the breaststroke portion of the IM.
For all of you Im'ers out there, what is now legal: both turns or does a swimmer have to do an "open turn"?
Donna
Well, you can do the "freestyle" turn in backstroke if you are doing the 400 IM; you just can't do it in the transition from the last leg of the backstroke to the first leg of the breaststroke.
Well, you can do the "freestyle" turn in backstroke if you are doing the 400 IM; you just can't do it in the transition from the last leg of the backstroke to the first leg of the breaststroke.
