I heard through a friend on Facebook, who has connections to Conventionites, that the full body suits may be crawling out of their graves to stalk the earth once more?
Rumor has it that a fringe group from California has proposed this, and that the swim suit manufacturers smell money in the water, and that the USMS politboro smells money in the feverish sweat of the swim suit manufacturers.
Is any of this true?
Discuss amongst yourselves in as lively and as incendiary a way as possible!
okay, sure. I really don't care either way although I love my nero.
I think it's so funny that so many people who really don't even swim in meets care so much about this issue. Just an observation from a an unfluential and unimportant member of the USMS>
I will leave the rule-making to those of you who have a voice.
Pacific Masters, the proponent of the body suits for SCY proposal, conducted a poll strictly of those members of PMS that competed in this year's SCY championship meet. Although not perfect, that's probably a fairly representative group of the competitive swimmers here in Nor Cal and North West Nevada. (Of course, I refused to go to that meet in part because the body suits were still legal, so the poll missed getting my views and the views of others who made the same decision.)
This PMS poll was the subject of a thread here a month or so ago. Does anybody know the results of that poll? Was it mentioned at the convention? I would have thought that if it showed that competitive swimmers favored body suits, PMS would have made a big deal about it. If it showed the opposite, I wonder why PMS didn't withdraw their proposal (as not being consistent with the views of even the competitive subset of PMS swimmers). Ultimately, I'm glad it got voted on because it's just one more nail in the coffin of this debate (though I doubt we'll ever see the final nail in that particular coffin).
I'm with Chris that we probably won't see a shift in the views of the overall membership of USMS until FINA itself (or whatever new governing body might replace it some day) changes course.
