Went to the Missouri Grand Prix, w my wife and girls, age 12 and 8, to watch some great swimming this past weekend and it was great!
Also recently paid to have a criminal background check as I am an official for USA swimming, so they can make sure I'm not a perv...(I passed...)
I will say this, and I'm really not a prude, but in light of spending 55-60 bucks for the background check, perhaps USA swimming should look at enforcing some simple modesty in the swimmers.
I've never seen so many butt-cracks on the men and butt cheeks on the women in my entire lifelong swimming experience!!!! The fronts of guys suits literally an inch from their "junk" and their butt crack hanging out. Girls with their full butt cheek exposed as their warmup suits were 5 sizes too small and tucked in like a thong.
My 8 yr old daughter and my wife had a 20 something young man wrap his towel around himself, pull off his suit, pull on his underwear, about 5 ft in front of them (and his butt was fully exposed for a brief moment)...
I personally dont care, it bothers me not in the least, but what does bother me is USA is trying to crack down on the pervs, but then allows this...
Just my 2 cents...
Has Chris gone rogue? I thought there was a forum rule about not having a smilie without text in a post?
no, there's a rule that you can't post a picture without any words. not that I would know anything about that. Welcome to the dark side Chris! :bliss:
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Has Chris gone rogue? I thought there was a forum rule about not having a smilie without text in a post?
Maybe the sight of a little crack is what gets him up to swim fast at a meet.
Those are exceptionally smart smilies. What can I say? I like wise cracks.
It could start right about now.
My brother Tom occassionaly swam his Marathon swims in the nude. He would start the race with a swim suit, take it off, swim in the nude. After the race was finished he would put a suit on before he exited the water.
no tan lines! good idea
No what bothers me is I spend 50 to be an official, now they are asking me to spend another 40 to make sure I'm not a pedophile.
Then the lines just keep getting more and more blurred. The kids see the butt cracks and butt cheeks on the "pros", next thing, it's butt cracks and butt cheeks at agegroup meets...remeber we're warding off pedophiles???
Sorry, it's not the end of the world, personally yeah, it bothers me when a 20 something young man does a deck change right in front, like 3 rows of bleachers in front with no one in between, of my 8 yr old daughter. Yep it bothers me a bit. Sue me.
Why not sue USA Swimming? Afterall, they could use more exposure.
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Chris,
I am disappointed in you. A man of your higher education can come up with something better than one of those stupid smiley faces to express your feelings about my comment.
I concur with your main point, but didn't USA Swimming put out some new rule or policy about deck changing, as an anti-"perv" measure, not so long ago?
deck changing technically violates the USA-S code of conduct/sportsmanship policy.
the way our LSC enforces it (not sure if all of USA-S does it the same way) is that, if you get caught, you'll be kicked out of the rest of the meet.
not sure if this has happened to anyone yet though...
Has Chris gone rogue? I thought there was a forum rule about not having a smilie without text in a post?
Maybe the sight of a little crack is what gets him up to swim fast at a meet.
