All the announcements that are flying around about this, that or the other thing, being legal, maybe allowed and not legal, have not helped clarify anything to me. I read the latest USMS release as:
a) we'll follow whatever FINA says, but
b) later says that we can wear whatever we want despite FINA's ruling.
Very confusing- are we following FINA or not?
As a Meet Director, I find this to be a huge problem, especially as it relates to blueSeventy suits. I am sure that there will be plenty of people wearing/wanting to wear b70s while swimming in the meet I am hosting on June 21, just after the next FINA deadline and I would like to know what I should be telling our participants to wear (or not wear), and what our officials should be allowing or disallowing.
Considering b70's level of sponsorship and the prevalence of their suits at USMS meets over the last year, I think it would be prudent for the Rules Committee to release a statement citing this particular company's suits in their examples. It would greatly help me out.
2. Question: Can I still wear my LZR or TYR Tracer at meets including long course meters meets?
Answer: Yes, because at least some of the LZR and the TYR Tracer models are on the new list of FINA-approved suits that was published May 19, 2009, and none of these suits are on the not-approved list. All LZR and TYR suits are legal at least until the retesting is completed. (We have not seen the official list of suits being retested, so we don’t know if there are models of these suits included.)
See, this is the confusing part. Why no mention of blueseventy? No blueseventy suit is on the approved list, so does that make them illegal? As for the "not approved" list, has anyone actually seen this? Supposedly ten suits were flat-out rejected, but I haven't seen anything that actually lists what these ten were.
2. Question: Can I still wear my LZR or TYR Tracer at meets including long course meters meets?
Answer: Yes, because at least some of the LZR and the TYR Tracer models are on the new list of FINA-approved suits that was published May 19, 2009, and none of these suits are on the not-approved list. All LZR and TYR suits are legal at least until the retesting is completed. (We have not seen the official list of suits being retested, so we don’t know if there are models of these suits included.)
See, this is the confusing part. Why no mention of blueseventy? No blueseventy suit is on the approved list, so does that make them illegal? As for the "not approved" list, has anyone actually seen this? Supposedly ten suits were flat-out rejected, but I haven't seen anything that actually lists what these ten were.
