WTF?
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../21392.asp
I guess this means that "anything goes" in masters, unless your national federation places its own limitations on approved suits.
Obviously there are far more age-groupers than masters, but I wonder if the masters market is really as small as people are assuming.
I think masters is a big enough market. One of the other sports I enjoy is snow skiing and there are lots of small, boutique ski manufacturers around these days that probably only sell a few hundred pairs of skis per year. They survive just by selling these so I don't see why a swimsuit manufacturer couldn't continue with a "masters only" suit espeically considering they'd still be selling their other suits to the non-masters market.
In any event, I think this is a real boneheaded move. The rules regarding suits should be the same for everyone.
Obviously there are far more age-groupers than masters, but I wonder if the masters market is really as small as people are assuming.
I think masters is a big enough market. One of the other sports I enjoy is snow skiing and there are lots of small, boutique ski manufacturers around these days that probably only sell a few hundred pairs of skis per year. They survive just by selling these so I don't see why a swimsuit manufacturer couldn't continue with a "masters only" suit espeically considering they'd still be selling their other suits to the non-masters market.
In any event, I think this is a real boneheaded move. The rules regarding suits should be the same for everyone.
