USA Swimming Rules : Cannot have 2 swim caps??

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Allen Stark — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:04:36 GMT

I wear a regular latex cap and then a"dome" cap over it.The dome cap tend to come off for me worn by itself.

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orca1946 — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:10:33 GMT

I think the concept is that air can be trapped between 2 caps & give extra floatation. How much that would be is so small to be not a factor, IMHO.

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swimshark — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:25:01 GMT

I think the concept is that air can be trapped between 2 caps & give extra floatation. How much that would be is so small to be not a factor, IMHO. Most wearing 2 caps are wearing the higher tech, thick caps. They are so tight that most likely there is little air trapped there.

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swimshark — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:28:56 GMT

I just received an official response from USA Swimming and you ARE allowed to wear two swim caps in a USA swim meet. If you watched Nationals (and now Jr Nationals) a lot of them are wearing the 2 caps.

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Former Member — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:29:21 GMT

I agree with your statement. I do not think it is illegal either. It was just how it was interrepted by different officals. Maybe USA Swimming can clairfy it in the near future. I just received an official response from USA Swimming and you ARE allowed to wear two swim caps in a USA swim meet.

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Former Member — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:32:46 GMT

Hold on now, isn't that why there are rules in the first place? There's no point in making a rule unless breaking the rule caused an unfair advantage. My feeling is that wearing two caps is still OK. My recollection is that the wording about "a swimsuit, cap and goggles" has been in place for some time. It's only within the last year that a specific rule was added saying you could only use one swimsuit. It stands to reason that if they also wanted to make two caps illegal they would specifically say that in the rules, just like they did with suits. I agree with your statement. I do not think it is illegal either. It was just how it was interrepted by different officals. Maybe USA Swimming can clairfy it in the near future.

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bzaks1424 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:53:45 GMT

Even if it was a rule - it would never be enforced until someone decided that it gave someone else an unfair advantage and decided to :censor: at the refs so they could get their Nth place finish.

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knelson — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:00:06 GMT

it would never be enforced until someone decided that it gave someone else an unfair advantage Hold on now, isn't that why there are rules in the first place? There's no point in making a rule unless breaking the rule caused an unfair advantage. My feeling is that wearing two caps is still OK. My recollection is that the wording about "a swimsuit, cap and goggles" has been in place for some time. It's only within the last year that a specific rule was added saying you could only use one swimsuit. It stands to reason that if they also wanted to make two caps illegal they would specifically say that in the rules, just like they did with suits.

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Former Member — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:19:19 GMT

Well, as Allen stated, the USMS Rules Chair says 2 caps are ok. So, there won't be any dq's anywhere in USMS for wearing 2 caps. True.. My concern is in the USA Swimming sanctioned meets for 18U.

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Elaine Krugman — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:50:22 GMT

True.. My concern is in the USA Swimming sanctioned meets for 18U. Why don't you ask before your events, so you don't risk a possible DQ? Better safe than sorry...

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swimshark — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:40:58 GMT

True.. My concern is in the USA Swimming sanctioned meets for 18U. As I said, I saw it at my USA-S Jr/Sr Champs last weekend and no one was DQd.

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Former Member — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:14:51 GMT

So this type of inner debate is what it's like to have hair ? Us baldie swimmers just don't understand ;) Exactly! What's a "Cap"?! :D

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Former Member — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:02:19 GMT

I haven't see Phelps swim in a while... but wasn't the rule changed (regarding wearing only 1 swim cap) after the 2008 Olympics (or even after that?) Thanks for all the feedback. Sounds like it is highly subjective to intererptation to the officals and no one as of yet actually been DQed in Nationals, Sectionals or other meets.

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Elaine Krugman — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:55:24 GMT

Thanks for all the feedback. Sounds like it is highly subjective to intererptation to the officals and no one as of yet actually been DQed in Nationals, Sectionals or other meets. Well, as Allen stated, the USMS Rules Chair says 2 caps are ok. So, there won't be any dq's anywhere in USMS for wearing 2 caps.

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Former Member — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:37:58 GMT

I haven't see Phelps swim in a while... but wasn't the rule changed (regarding wearing only 1 swim cap) after the 2008 Olympics (or even after that?)

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Former Member — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:30:03 GMT

So this type of inner debate is what it's like to have hair ? Us baldie swimmers just don't understand ;)

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Patrick W. Brundage — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:08:21 GMT

ANDE what do you say ? :confused::bow:I'm no Ande, but Phelps and that crowd wear two caps almost all the time. It's fine.

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Elaine Krugman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:16:43 GMT

ANDE what do you say ? :confused::bow: Orca, I think you can trust Allen :bow: on this one. ;)

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orca1946 — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:31:58 GMT

ANDE what do you say ? :confused::bow:

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Elaine Krugman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:00:10 GMT

I specifically asked Kathy Casey(USMS Rules Chair) this and she said 2 caps were OK. :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: Thanks, Allen! I figured it was, because Ande recommends it and does it himself- including at Nationals.

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Allen Stark — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:58:09 GMT

I specifically asked Kathy Casey(USMS Rules Chair) this and she said 2 caps were OK.

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ourswimmer — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:15:45 GMT

Why not just wear goggles under a single cap? prevent the silicon cap from pulling my hair. It is more of a comfort thing. I also don't like how the goggle straps pull on my hair.

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swimshark — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:13:16 GMT

At USA-S Jr/Sr Champ this past weekend several kids we wearing 2 caps. They had their team cap, goggles and then the new racing caps on. None of them were DQd over it.

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Elaine Krugman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:04:29 GMT

Why not just wear goggles under a single cap? The strap seems to hold better over a cap, rather than over my hair. I have found with my size head that adult caps are too large, but Jr. caps are too tight. Two caps keeps everything in place just right!

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knelson — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:00:37 GMT

Why not just wear goggles under a single cap? By the way, the current wording of the USMS rule matches the USAS rule. See www.usms.org/.../20100119swimsuits.pdf