I called TYR and spoke with a PR person regarding the release of the Tracer Rise scheduled for February. (I do this swim blog and I have been fixated on suits as of late.)
While I was on the phone I realized that if Swimming Australia Ltd, USA Swimming, and all of the other anti-speedsuit governing bodies have their way, speedsuits like the full bodied Speedo LZR, the TYR Tracer Light and Rise, the blueseventy Nero, and many others could be summarily outlawed?
This would certainly effect masters swimmers like me who invested in a suit recently to only have it potentially denied in competition just months from now. (They really should ask the swimmers what we think.)
I suggest that if the suits have to be banned or even modifired, which I disagree with intensely, I hope there is a long grace period at the masters level to do so. Say like a year or two.
I'm with the Wolf (and Geek, too) on this one... if you mandate suits purely on cost and availability, then there are other "technologies" that also need such "oversight" like caps, goggles, etc. People can and will spend their money any way they want.
The pigeons have flown on this one for 2008. Let the ruling bodies do as they may in 2009, that is what they are in place to do. It will be amusing to see them all try to squirm into line on this one given the monies they all have taken from the suit makers.
I'm with the Wolf (and Geek, too) on this one... if you mandate suits purely on cost and availability, then there are other "technologies" that also need such "oversight" like caps, goggles, etc. People can and will spend their money any way they want.
The pigeons have flown on this one for 2008. Let the ruling bodies do as they may in 2009, that is what they are in place to do. It will be amusing to see them all try to squirm into line on this one given the monies they all have taken from the suit makers.
