No. Masters Swimming is for people to swim according to the rules of swimming. It's a stretch to call doping regulations the rules of swimming. They define not how we swim, but who is allowed to swim. Basically, they discriminate against a certain class of people. In professional swimming, we probably want to discriminate against dopers, because so much is at stake. In Masters, I would much prefer to allow anyone to swim. If they are on steroids and they beat me, good for them.
This is pure semantics. Cheaters are a class of people, too (the same class as dopers IMO). Is insisting that they touch with two hands or don't false-start discrimination?
I am pretty sure that using PEDs is against the rules of USMS but that we simply don't test for it, but I don't have time to look it up right now (wife is calling). We do swim according to FINA rules, after all.
No. Masters Swimming is for people to swim according to the rules of swimming. It's a stretch to call doping regulations the rules of swimming. They define not how we swim, but who is allowed to swim. Basically, they discriminate against a certain class of people. In professional swimming, we probably want to discriminate against dopers, because so much is at stake. In Masters, I would much prefer to allow anyone to swim. If they are on steroids and they beat me, good for them.
This is pure semantics. Cheaters are a class of people, too (the same class as dopers IMO). Is insisting that they touch with two hands or don't false-start discrimination?
I am pretty sure that using PEDs is against the rules of USMS but that we simply don't test for it, but I don't have time to look it up right now (wife is calling). We do swim according to FINA rules, after all.
