TECHSUITS BANNED (again): AP article on FINA ruling

Speedos (from Fastskins on up) feel like they are buoyant, especially when dry. ? Feeling Buoyant and being buoyant are 2 different things. FINA could have kept pretty much everyone happy if they had decided to say "All suits used at the 2007 worlds and before are what we are going back too. Any suit approved after the 2007 world's will be illegal" That would have keep the people who like full body suits happy and those who wanted the suits like b70 and jaked gone happy, except for the suit makes of course.

That wouldn't make me happy.

That wouldn't make me happy. Nothing ever seems to make you happy. You are grumpier than geek

That wouldn't make me happy. Wouldn't have made USA Swimming happy either, from what I have read.

That wouldn't make me happy. Wouldn't have made USA Swimming happy either, from what I have read. Didn't say it would make everyone happy. Most everyone because it would have been a good compromise. Until the last minute, even USA swimming was supporting a proposal to allow guys to wear suits that covered the upper torso and at least to knee suits.

IMHO, if you love swimming and racing, the legality of bodysuits should not play much of a role in your swimming future (or lack thereof, I suppose).

It's just that I know how very well the suits contain my aging "flubber." It's depressing to know that there will be no more PB's in my future unless I'm somehow blessed by an angel or something. I think that beyond a certain age, anything should go, just to keep us going.

The way FINA is going, by 2011 we'll be back to doing open turns!

A shocker: Speedo is upset. I do feel sorry for the effect of FINA's yoyo-ing on the suit manufacturers, including Speedo. But I think it is a little dishonest for Speedo to say "Speedo has always believed that there is no place in the sport for buoyancy aids." Maybe not as buoyant as the impermeable suits, but most people I know who have worn Speedos (from Fastskins on up) feel like they are buoyant, especially when dry. And why should buoyancy be forbidden any more than any other type of aid, such as compression? Yeah, that's BS. The LZR is buoyant. I'm sure the suit manufacturers will lose bucks, having designed and manufactured suits that they thought would be legal in 2010 based on FINA's previous guidelines ... I also agree with everything Greg Shaw said earlier. And I think my own experiments with the evilstroke will now end. I definitely don't love it enough to swim it without my B70. Pfftttt.

The records were (and will be) achieved by swimmers competing in suits that were (and will be), at the time of their swim, perfectly legal to have been worn. No asteriskes.