Doesn't seem like USMS is confused though ... They're just interpreting "approved list" to mean not explicitly banned, subject to clarification, subject to future modification and approval, tentatively unapproved but not per se illegal, etc. The problem with this is swimmers want a real answer: can I swim in X suit and beginning or ending on what date?
I agree. It now seems clearer what you would have to wear (or to have worn at any time after March 14, 2009) to have a swim count as a WR, or for FINA's annual TT. But it remains unclear what USMS will count for a US national record or for USMS TT.
I am also a bit miffed that none of my bargain-basement tech suits are on the list (except for my FSIs, which are pretty much worn out). Here I was thinking I was so thrifty by investing in a small wardrobe of discontinued older-generation suits rather than in one B70 Nero Comp. But now if I want a shot at a FINA TT (which really, really tickled me for 2008), I gotta go buy a new suit anyway.
The bit about 136 suits being sent back for "modification" seems like a red herring, though. If the manufacturer has to modify the suit for it to pass, then one I bought before the manufacturer modified the design is not going to do, unless the modification is something like "walk all over it with golf spikes."
Doesn't seem like USMS is confused though ... They're just interpreting "approved list" to mean not explicitly banned, subject to clarification, subject to future modification and approval, tentatively unapproved but not per se illegal, etc. The problem with this is swimmers want a real answer: can I swim in X suit and beginning or ending on what date?
I agree. It now seems clearer what you would have to wear (or to have worn at any time after March 14, 2009) to have a swim count as a WR, or for FINA's annual TT. But it remains unclear what USMS will count for a US national record or for USMS TT.
I am also a bit miffed that none of my bargain-basement tech suits are on the list (except for my FSIs, which are pretty much worn out). Here I was thinking I was so thrifty by investing in a small wardrobe of discontinued older-generation suits rather than in one B70 Nero Comp. But now if I want a shot at a FINA TT (which really, really tickled me for 2008), I gotta go buy a new suit anyway.
The bit about 136 suits being sent back for "modification" seems like a red herring, though. If the manufacturer has to modify the suit for it to pass, then one I bought before the manufacturer modified the design is not going to do, unless the modification is something like "walk all over it with golf spikes."
