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.
Why? Masters already has at least one rule different than age group/elite competiton in terms of swimming. Masters can do breastroke kick for fly while others can't. There are probably some others that I don't know about but why can't we have a separate ruling for suits? Who's it gonna hurt?
The better comparison is that FINA doesn't do drug testing of Masters swimmers. So apparently we can wear whatever we want and take whatever we want, whereas Olympic-caliber swimmers can do neither.
Why? Masters already has at least one rule different than age group/elite competiton in terms of swimming. Masters can do breastroke kick for fly while others can't. There are probably some others that I don't know about but why can't we have a separate ruling for suits? Who's it gonna hurt?
The better comparison is that FINA doesn't do drug testing of Masters swimmers. So apparently we can wear whatever we want and take whatever we want, whereas Olympic-caliber swimmers can do neither.
