Some Aging Competitors Call High-Tech Swimsuits Dirty Pool

Seriously, my bill for 5 days at Indy was ginormous. :afraid: Much much worse than my suit bill. Further random comments just for Midas: 1. I swam slower in my Jaked than my old B70 except in one event. 2. Cost is not a very compelling reason to me for adults. However, I have always said that age groupers should be regulated apart from open champs meets. 3. I don't give a toss about poor Mr. Phelps competing in a LZR. 4. The "it's because of the suit" argument is just the newest of the "its because of the ______ arguments. 5. The fastest people will still be the hardest workers (like CS or KPN) despite GoodSmith's stupid elitist "some are taking it too seriously" remarks. 6. No way does the suit give anything close to the time differences between Mann and Evans. Jeez, rolls eyes. 7. Tech suits don't last longer than a year. 8. This reporter tried to contact me twice, and I missed her calls. I wish I had spoken to her. Maybe the article wouldn't have been quite so ridiculously slanted. Offhand, I recall only one throwaway pro-suit quote from Rowdy ... And, sigh, "dirty" is just another word for "immoral" or wrong. :bitching::bitching::bitching: Why is this stuff for me! :bitching: I'm with you on points 2 (with respect to costs--I think we should all be governed by the same rules), 3, 5 and 6. My B70 lasted for well over a year so I can't agree with you there (that's the true beauty of the suit IMHO), but maybe you swim way more meets that I do. On point 1 I think the B70 and Jaked are probably pretty close in terms of performance enhancing capability (though the jaked does have slightly more rubberized material, so my guess is you had an "off" day. That leaves point 4 as our one point of disagreement. My problem with point 4 is the blank used to get filled in with "PEDs". I don't know what else gets filled in there.... Nobody can *really* complain about an athlete that trains smarter/harder/better or even one that is more physically gifted. Well they can, but unlike with the suits I think the majority of folks reject the legitimacy of that complaint...

Seriously, my bill for 5 days at Indy was ginormous. :afraid: Much much worse than my suit bill. Further random comments just for Midas: 1. I swam slower in my Jaked than my old B70 except in one event. 2. Cost is not a very compelling reason to me for adults. However, I have always said that age groupers should be regulated apart from open champs meets. 3. I don't give a toss about poor Mr. Phelps competing in a LZR. 4. The "it's because of the suit" argument is just the newest of the "its because of the ______ arguments. 5. The fastest people will still be the hardest workers (like CS or KPN) despite GoodSmith's stupid elitist "some are taking it too seriously" remarks. 6. No way does the suit give anything close to the time differences between Mann and Evans. Jeez, rolls eyes. 7. Tech suits don't last longer than a year. 8. This reporter tried to contact me twice, and I missed her calls. I wish I had spoken to her. Maybe the article wouldn't have been quite so ridiculously slanted. Offhand, I recall only one throwaway pro-suit quote from Rowdy ... And, sigh, "dirty" is just another word for "immoral" or wrong. :bitching::bitching::bitching: Why is this stuff for me! :bitching: I'm with you on points 2 (with respect to costs--I think we should all be governed by the same rules), 3, 5 and 6. My B70 lasted for well over a year so I can't agree with you there (that's the true beauty of the suit IMHO), but maybe you swim way more meets that I do. On point 1 I think the B70 and Jaked are probably pretty close in terms of performance enhancing capability (though the jaked does have slightly more rubberized material, so my guess is you had an "off" day. That leaves point 4 as our one point of disagreement. My problem with point 4 is the blank used to get filled in with "PEDs". I don't know what else gets filled in there.... Nobody can *really* complain about an athlete that trains smarter/harder/better or even one that is more physically gifted. Well they can, but unlike with the suits I think the majority of folks reject the legitimacy of that complaint...