The FINA Coaches association is recommending in January that all of Speedo's competitors who set world records in 2008 and 2009 have their WRs considered as "second tier WRs" thereby elevating textile WRs as more special.
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This is move will make swimming a laughing stock of sport.
no matter what happens, we will still be able to look down our noses at such sports as darts, football and nascar
This is just the latest episode of the swimming world’s soap opera “The Can Of Worms” and I (and many others) already thought of the idea of derating any WR set while using a tech suit:
U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums - View Single Post - What Will Be the Longest Standing World Record of Suit Age?
As for getting all the worms back in the can (and the final episode of the soap opera), FINA should just TIVO back to the rules in effect in the 70s and 80s before they allowed all this “suit technology” stuff to be legal. :agree:
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