New rules announced today!
BBC
World swimming governing body Fina has moved to limit the impact of the controversial hi-tech swimsuits.
Last year saw an astonishing 108 world records broken, 79 of them by swimmers wearing one suit, the Speedo LZR Racer.
But following a three-day meeting in Dubai, Fina has stipulated swimsuits should not cover the neck and must not extend past the shoulders and ankles.
... opponents of the hi-tech suits argue the buoyancy they create amounts to "technological doping".
And matters came to a head in December when 17 world records tumbled at the European Short-Course Championships with the sight of swimmers squeezing into more than one suit in an attempt to compress their bodies and trap air for buoyancy dismaying many observers...
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So does this mean that swimming is joining baseball and will now have to include the dreaded asterisk * on all these recently attained records done in tech suits?
At the time the records were broken, no rules were. The suits were legal and were not challenged by any governing body or official at the meets in question.
No asteriks should be required any more so than if a change in stroke (like flip turns in back) would have caused an asterisk.
So does this mean that swimming is joining baseball and will now have to include the dreaded asterisk * on all these recently attained records done in tech suits?
At the time the records were broken, no rules were. The suits were legal and were not challenged by any governing body or official at the meets in question.
No asteriks should be required any more so than if a change in stroke (like flip turns in back) would have caused an asterisk.
