It's all well and good to say you don't care what competitors are doing, but it is a competition, and the competition should be fair. There are already rules prohibiting performance enhancing devices, flotation, etc. The controversy was caused by those rules not being enforced, plain and simple.
It all started with Thorpe and his full-length bodysuits. Then we had the Lazers in Beijing. Now it's polyurethane. Next year it will probably be suits with little ridges and dorsal fins on them. Hell, why not just go to full-on wetsuits? The whole controversy is pretty stupid if you ask me. Obviously the suits are a form of cheating. It should be no surprise to anyone that we have arrived at this point.
I agree with Rowdy and others who say that now Pandora's box is open and there is no good solution. It's a mess.
It's all well and good to say you don't care what competitors are doing, but it is a competition, and the competition should be fair. There are already rules prohibiting performance enhancing devices, flotation, etc. The controversy was caused by those rules not being enforced, plain and simple.
It all started with Thorpe and his full-length bodysuits. Then we had the Lazers in Beijing. Now it's polyurethane. Next year it will probably be suits with little ridges and dorsal fins on them. Hell, why not just go to full-on wetsuits? The whole controversy is pretty stupid if you ask me. Obviously the suits are a form of cheating. It should be no surprise to anyone that we have arrived at this point.
I agree with Rowdy and others who say that now Pandora's box is open and there is no good solution. It's a mess.
