Before 2009 Kukors best 200 IM was 2:10.40 World class for sure, but still a cut behind the top women in the event. Today she goes a 2:06.15 and in two days shaves more than a second off the world record. I nominate this swim, just ahead of Bousquets 20.94, as the most ridiculous suited up swim of all time.
The problem with your argument is that these are already the most elite level swimmers in the world so the nitpicky parsing of differences is pretty irrelevant. If one swimmer has better body position that's a coaching and training issue, not a swimsuit issue and would be seen regardless of suit worn. Every person in the heat, heck every person in the meet, is wearing a tech suit which 100% nullifies the non level playing field allegation.
The whiners are criers have won apparently so we will all regress to the 80s.
I'm with Geek.
Kukors just swam better than the other suited up women in her event.
There is simply no need for a total ban on tech suits. FINA should have just had the balls to regulate properly. They could have drawn the line at the LZR/B70, or drawn the line at the LZR (which they attempted to do last March or April and then reversed course), or regulated the age groupers. Moreover, it's the latest rash of suits -- Jaked, Hydrofoil, Arena that seem to be causing people to whine more than ever. If the suits had been introduced or approved more gradually, there wouldn't be people crying about returning "swimming to the swimmers."
And, for the last time, there is no level playing field.
The problem with your argument is that these are already the most elite level swimmers in the world so the nitpicky parsing of differences is pretty irrelevant. If one swimmer has better body position that's a coaching and training issue, not a swimsuit issue and would be seen regardless of suit worn. Every person in the heat, heck every person in the meet, is wearing a tech suit which 100% nullifies the non level playing field allegation.
The whiners are criers have won apparently so we will all regress to the 80s.
I'm with Geek.
Kukors just swam better than the other suited up women in her event.
There is simply no need for a total ban on tech suits. FINA should have just had the balls to regulate properly. They could have drawn the line at the LZR/B70, or drawn the line at the LZR (which they attempted to do last March or April and then reversed course), or regulated the age groupers. Moreover, it's the latest rash of suits -- Jaked, Hydrofoil, Arena that seem to be causing people to whine more than ever. If the suits had been introduced or approved more gradually, there wouldn't be people crying about returning "swimming to the swimmers."
And, for the last time, there is no level playing field.
