Jon Urbanchek on the suits:
Q: Is the suit issue behind us?
Jon: It is starting to be, and will continue to be more behind us as we move in the right direction. We will remember 2009 as basically the suit and exuberance. Remember how we had the stock market and housing bubble exuberances? They all crashed eventually. We had that with the suits, and they crashed too. And I knew it would. This year, there are going to be a lot of ocean waves about this – 60 footers – going around, but next year, it will calm down, and soon after that it will be no longer be an issue. We have an “order” in swimming, and that order was upset by the suits. The number one thing in the order was the suit, the talent was number two, and training was number three. Now we got back to the talent being number one, the training being number two – and the suit is no longer an issue because we will all have the same suit on. It should start to become case-closed on this. By the time the next Olympic rolls around, we should be back to normal. The only problem we have right now is this world record mess. My recommendation is to turn world records back to December 2007, before the first high-tech suit came out from Speedo, and use that as a base. What I envision is having the “world’s fastest time” set with these suits, and the world records themselves, set outside of the period from 2007 to the end of this World Championships. What does a world record mean anymore with this suit issue? They have no meaning any longer. But the suit issue will die down. We’re back on the right track now.
www.swimnetwork.com/.../20_question_tuesday_with_jon_urbanchek-5625.html
Jon Urbanchek on the suits:
Q: Is the suit issue behind us?
Jon: It is starting to be, and will continue to be more behind us as we move in the right direction. We will remember 2009 as basically the suit and exuberance. Remember how we had the stock market and housing bubble exuberances? They all crashed eventually. We had that with the suits, and they crashed too. And I knew it would. This year, there are going to be a lot of ocean waves about this – 60 footers – going around, but next year, it will calm down, and soon after that it will be no longer be an issue. We have an “order” in swimming, and that order was upset by the suits. The number one thing in the order was the suit, the talent was number two, and training was number three. Now we got back to the talent being number one, the training being number two – and the suit is no longer an issue because we will all have the same suit on. It should start to become case-closed on this. By the time the next Olympic rolls around, we should be back to normal. The only problem we have right now is this world record mess. My recommendation is to turn world records back to December 2007, before the first high-tech suit came out from Speedo, and use that as a base. What I envision is having the “world’s fastest time” set with these suits, and the world records themselves, set outside of the period from 2007 to the end of this World Championships. What does a world record mean anymore with this suit issue? They have no meaning any longer. But the suit issue will die down. We’re back on the right track now.
www.swimnetwork.com/.../20_question_tuesday_with_jon_urbanchek-5625.html
