New rules announced today!
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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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The briefs only idea is clearly unfair to female swimmers and is also unenforceable at the Masters level.(I don't want any of the guys to volunteer to check to make sure the women aren't wearing a jogbra.)Since it is unenforceable I suggest the judges don't even try.We should say the spirit of the rules is to not wear 2 tech suits and that to do so is cheating,but just as we don't test for PEDs in Masters we shouldn't have,or need swimsuit police.
I don't understand why this is unenforceable in Masters. It is easy to see if another suit is underneath - whether high or low.
The briefs only idea is clearly unfair to female swimmers and is also unenforceable at the Masters level.(I don't want any of the guys to volunteer to check to make sure the women aren't wearing a jogbra.)Since it is unenforceable I suggest the judges don't even try.We should say the spirit of the rules is to not wear 2 tech suits and that to do so is cheating,but just as we don't test for PEDs in Masters we shouldn't have,or need swimsuit police.
I don't understand why this is unenforceable in Masters. It is easy to see if another suit is underneath - whether high or low.
