From Swimnews

as inflamatory as the article is. if masters adopt a wear anything you want policy; mr lord is right. This is true in principle. However, we already have no drug testing (as was mentioned in the SwimNews article) and rely on master's swimmers to keep themselves under control. I cannot imagine the cost of master's swimming if we were to require drug testing. I have witnessed FINA drug control randomly showing up at practices of the German National Team in Flagstaff and tried to generalize that to every master's practice in every little pool in all the world. Costly indeed! Nor can I imagine the feasibility of having a ready room to check the legality of all suits worn at master's meets. How many meets would we have in that case? Not many, I think. We'll just have to hope for the best if we have the 'wear anything you want' rule. And for those of us with old age six packs it's fine not to wear any body covering. My six packs have now multiplied into 24 packs & I need a girdle to keep them in place.

as inflamatory as the article is. if masters adopt a wear anything you want policy; mr lord is right. This is true in principle. However, we already have no drug testing (as was mentioned in the SwimNews article) and rely on master's swimmers to keep themselves under control. I cannot imagine the cost of master's swimming if we were to require drug testing. I have witnessed FINA drug control randomly showing up at practices of the German National Team in Flagstaff and tried to generalize that to every master's practice in every little pool in all the world. Costly indeed! Nor can I imagine the feasibility of having a ready room to check the legality of all suits worn at master's meets. How many meets would we have in that case? Not many, I think. We'll just have to hope for the best if we have the 'wear anything you want' rule. And for those of us with old age six packs it's fine not to wear any body covering. My six packs have now multiplied into 24 packs & I need a girdle to keep them in place.