Some Aging Competitors Call High-Tech Swimsuits Dirty Pool
Former Member
Wall Street Journal article: online.wsj.com/.../SB125721159786824325.html
Michael Mann of Centennial, Colo., flew past his opponents, swaddled shoulder-to-ankle in a black neoprene bodysuit. Mr. Mann, 55, won the 400-meter individual medley race and set a world record for his age group, 55 to 59. Mr. Mann set new world marks in the 200-, 400- and 800-meter freestyle while Mr. Evans steamed.
I really did intend to leave alone the dead horse. But I think it just moved, so: beat it I shall.
There's a joke from the middle ages of a traveler who comes upon a castle that is surrounded by people with levers. They say they are trying to move the walls of the castle. Some animal had left something smelly by the walls, and the king wanted a solution. The sensible traveler, of course, asked: why not move the small and smelly thing, rather than the castle?
By the same token, solving the small problem with a huge "solution" of setting new standards for suit design and changing all the swimming businesses from top to bottom - is all out of proportion to what's required to fix the stated and ostensible problem. It's like a bad joke. Unless, of course, people aren't saying what really bugs them about the suits (which is what I think).
Okay, I had to smile at a pro-suit person who equates the suits with a pile of cow manure; personally I think that's just a little harsh.
But it is hard to believe in the hundreds -- thousands? -- of posts on the topic here and elsewhere that the anti tech-suit people haven't said what's truly on their (our) minds.
So I'll bite: what is it that you think REALLY bugs us about the suits?
I really did intend to leave alone the dead horse. But I think it just moved, so: beat it I shall.
There's a joke from the middle ages of a traveler who comes upon a castle that is surrounded by people with levers. They say they are trying to move the walls of the castle. Some animal had left something smelly by the walls, and the king wanted a solution. The sensible traveler, of course, asked: why not move the small and smelly thing, rather than the castle?
By the same token, solving the small problem with a huge "solution" of setting new standards for suit design and changing all the swimming businesses from top to bottom - is all out of proportion to what's required to fix the stated and ostensible problem. It's like a bad joke. Unless, of course, people aren't saying what really bugs them about the suits (which is what I think).
Okay, I had to smile at a pro-suit person who equates the suits with a pile of cow manure; personally I think that's just a little harsh.
But it is hard to believe in the hundreds -- thousands? -- of posts on the topic here and elsewhere that the anti tech-suit people haven't said what's truly on their (our) minds.
So I'll bite: what is it that you think REALLY bugs us about the suits?
