SUIT EQUALITY

You are being selective here. Goggles are a device which aids speed and buoyancy during a race. So you now want goggles banned too? I admire your desire to see absolute purity in our sport. I think there is a distinction which can be made between things that slow you down, like wool suits, and things that speed you up, like fins and tech suits. Nylon suits slow you down less than wool suits. Goggles are a complete red herring, they allow goggles to reduce the exposure of eyeballs to chlorine not to allow you to swim faster. Goggles don't differentially compensate for deficiencies in training (e.g. lesser core strength) or seriously play into the results of races. If you think of swim races as testing athleticism on an even playing field, you don't compromise that by allowing goggles. Increasingly "purity" and "purist" are being used the same way "politically correct" is, and I don't think that helps elevate the debate.

You are being selective here. Goggles are a device which aids speed and buoyancy during a race. So you now want goggles banned too? I admire your desire to see absolute purity in our sport. I think there is a distinction which can be made between things that slow you down, like wool suits, and things that speed you up, like fins and tech suits. Nylon suits slow you down less than wool suits. Goggles are a complete red herring, they allow goggles to reduce the exposure of eyeballs to chlorine not to allow you to swim faster. Goggles don't differentially compensate for deficiencies in training (e.g. lesser core strength) or seriously play into the results of races. If you think of swim races as testing athleticism on an even playing field, you don't compromise that by allowing goggles. Increasingly "purity" and "purist" are being used the same way "politically correct" is, and I don't think that helps elevate the debate.