My feeling is FINA would have allowed full body suits if they felt confident they could limit the technology. I think they were afraid the suit companies would find loopholes to get around whatever specs were put in place. By limiting coverage it gives the manufacturers much less to work with in this regard.
The problem is no one can/could agree on the material restrictions.
While I get everyone's feelings that FINA, USA and HS have already made their decisions so why not follow, maybe this is an opportunity for cooler heads to prevail and USMS can actually put some thought into a ruling rather than just making a snap decision to end the drama. Which is basically what FINA did.
The information and decisions out of USMS could be used to help create proper rules and regulations for FINA to keep this from ever being an issue again.
My feeling is FINA would have allowed full body suits if they felt confident they could limit the technology. I think they were afraid the suit companies would find loopholes to get around whatever specs were put in place. By limiting coverage it gives the manufacturers much less to work with in this regard.
The problem is no one can/could agree on the material restrictions.
While I get everyone's feelings that FINA, USA and HS have already made their decisions so why not follow, maybe this is an opportunity for cooler heads to prevail and USMS can actually put some thought into a ruling rather than just making a snap decision to end the drama. Which is basically what FINA did.
The information and decisions out of USMS could be used to help create proper rules and regulations for FINA to keep this from ever being an issue again.
